- Work and wellbeing
- Relationship support
- Stress reduction
About Christine
Christine "Chris" Coleman-Sandwell is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience helping people navigate work and life challenges. She uses a compassionate, person-focused style to support clients dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strains. Chris aims to create a calm space where people can talk about what matters most to them and begin making practical changes.
Her background includes long experience with caregiving stress, midlife transitions, and workplace-related burnout. She also works with issues like grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. Many clients seek her help for parenting tensions, blended family problems, or navigating separation and divorce.
Chris often uses client-centered techniques that put the person's priorities first. She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and on solution-focused methods to build clear, manageable steps. These approaches are used to address concerns from intimacy and sexuality to self-esteem and seasonal mood shifts.
Therapy with Chris tends to be practical and collaborative. She helps clients set short-term goals, test new behaviors, and reflect on progress. For those juggling work and life, she offers strategies to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning.
Chris practices in Missouri and conducts work that attends to LGBT issues, first responder stress, compassion fatigue, and women's issues. Her style is steady and respectful, aimed at helping people regain balance and move forward with clearer direction.
Approach-driven online support for work and life challenges
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist reflects concerns back, helps clarify priorities, and supports each client in choosing their next steps. This approach is useful for stress, relationship questions, and building self-confidence.Motivational Interviewing helps people find and strengthen their own reasons to change. It uses open conversation to resolve mixed feelings about action, which can be helpful for addictions, career changes, or forming new routines. Solution-Focused Therapy narrows attention to practical, short-term goals and small experiments that move a person forward quickly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your needs, discuss options, and help pick methods that fit your goals and preferences. Sessions are collaborative and adjust over time as progress and priorities change.
Please confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking, since the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule by cutting travel time, allowing shorter check-ins around work breaks, or avoiding the need to be on camera for every meeting. Licensed professionals use these methods to help people balance work and wellbeing while keeping therapy practical and goal-oriented.
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Experience
25+ years
Credentials
Missouri
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Chris address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns, addictions, grief, trauma and related life changes. Additional focuses include caregiver stress, blended family issues, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapy style like?
Her work is compassionate and client-centered, emphasizing the person's goals. She uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to create practical steps and build motivation.
How much experience does she bring?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and life concerns in Missouri.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She holds an LPC credential and practices in Missouri. The credential listed is MO LPC.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.