- Stress and anxiety
- Attachment-focused work
- CBT and ACT methods
About Christy
Christy Howard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience, licensed in Indiana and Kentucky. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship and family concerns, attention issues, attachment difficulties, grief, and depression. She also lists coaching, compassion fatigue, and a range of related concerns such as adoption and foster care and aging and geriatric issues.
Christy draws on many approaches rather than one fixed method. She mixes techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, attachment-based work, and client-centered practice. Sessions tend to focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and ways to change unhelpful patterns rooted in early family relationships.
Her background includes over 16 years on a crisis hotline in Louisville, Kentucky, where she practiced crisis intervention. That experience informs her ability to help people stabilize intense moments and plan manageable next steps. She also reports training related to play therapy and autism services and supervises Registered Play Therapists.
In therapy with Christy, people can expect straightforward conversation about patterns from the family they grew up in and how those patterns affect current relationships. She helps identify behaviors that repeat and offers concrete strategies to try between sessions. Work can include addressing attachment concerns, communication problems, and the stress of caregiving.
Sessions explore coping skills, decision points like separation or divorce, parenting strains, and recovery from losses. The emphasis is on practical tools and clearer day-to-day functioning rather than labels or diagnoses.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and choosing actions that reflect personal values. Online work with ACT often focuses on small experiments and day-to-day behavior changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift patterns. In remote sessions CBT can include guided exercises and homework to practice between meetings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people recognize and change repeating roles in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed based on what helps most in weekly sessions.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, or allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports using worksheets, shared screens, and real-time coaching on communication or grounding skills so learning can be practiced between meetings.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Kentucky, Indiana
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, relationship and family issues, attention and attachment concerns, depression, and related topics such as adoption and caregiver stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic approach?
Her style is eclectic and practical. She combines client-centered work with CBT, ACT, attachment-based approaches, and emotionally-focused techniques to address patterns and skills.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience and more than 16 years providing crisis intervention on a Louisville suicide hotline.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is an LCSW licensed in Indiana and Kentucky and practices from Kentucky.
Does she work in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm the current online and in-person session options before booking.
How are fees handled and how do I start?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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