Christianne Harris, LCSW

Christianne Harris is a licensed clinical social worker with 33 years of practice in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. Her work centers on real-life problems like self-esteem, relationship dynamics, and caregiving strain.

She describes a directive but compassionate style that adapts to each person. Sessions are practical and focused on building resilience and clearer choices. Christianne helps people name what matters and take steps that fit their lives.

Her background includes long experience with trauma, grief, and compassion fatigue, and she supports people facing chronic illness or caregiving demands. She also works with concerns around body image, eating, sleeping, and difficult personality patterns such as avoidant or antisocial traits.

Christianne uses a mix of approaches to match individual needs, including cognitive behavioral tools, acceptance-based practices, attachment work, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She draws on these methods to teach coping strategies and improve communication.

People often come for help with parenting stress, blended family issues, career strain, or the emotional impact of aging and geriatric issues. Her goal is practical change - clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better day-to-day functioning.

To begin, she asks people to identify their main concerns and current obstacles. From there she and the client set small, achievable goals and track progress over time.

Therapeutic approaches and adapting them for online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take action even when emotions are difficult. It uses simple exercises to identify values and commit to small steps toward them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan based on what actually helps the person feel and function better.

Confirm the specific session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins between busy days. They also let people use exercises and worksheets during or after sessions and try real-world experiments between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and DBT skills to work well over distance while focusing on practical steps and daily life improvements.