Christine Solum

Christine Solum is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Minnesota with 25 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive style aimed at helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by depression, anxiety, trauma, or life changes. Christine speaks plainly and focuses on practical next steps parents and caregivers can use right away. Her work draws on client-centered ways of relating. That means conversations start with what matters most to the person in the room. Christine also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice patterns of thinking and try new behaviors that reduce distress. Christine has worked with a wide range of concerns across the lifespan, including parenting challenges, relationship strain, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people with ADHD, obsessive-compulsive patterns, postpartum depression, and issues related to intellectual disability. Her background includes long experience helping people navigate major life transitions and trauma recovery. In sessions she adapts the work to each person. That might mean skill-building, focused problem solving, or exploring how past experiences affect current choices. She aims to make therapy practical and understandable so people can use what they learn between sessions. Parents and partners often come for help with communication, blended family adjustments, or managing anger and intimacy concerns. Christine encourages small, achievable steps and stays focused on the client’s goals while offering clear feedback and guidance.

How Christine’s Approaches Guide Online Therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and lived experience. The therapist listens carefully, follows the client’s lead, and helps clarify what matters most. This approach is useful for relationship concerns, parenting strain, grief, and difficulties adjusting to change.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, depression, anger, and compulsive habits. CBT often involves short exercises and practical homework to try between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of working together. Christine will collaborate with each client to choose methods that fit their needs and preferences. She often combines client-centered conversation with CBT tools and adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing sessions from wherever the person is. It can also support brief check-ins when schedules are tight or steady weekly sessions when deeper work is needed. Confirm the specific session options available before booking to match format and scheduling to personal needs.