Christina has been a practitioner of DBT since 2018, and has experience and interest in working with the full range of ages, cultures, and concerns. A Colorado-native, Christina attended her undergraduate in Vermont, and earned her Master’s in Social Work in the District of Columbia. Christina practices Contextually-focused DBT (C-DBT), a developing off-shoot of DBT, which is informed by the rich research body and therapeutic traditions of the contextual behavioral sciences - namely Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). Since 2019, Christina has worked closely with Dr. Paul Holmes of the University of Chicago as he has been developing C-DBT as a modality, and she is a contributing author to the upcoming C-DBT group process training manual: From Chronic Distress to a Meaningful Life. She is president-elect of the mid-Atlantic chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ABCS). 

 

Christina’s mission is to provide effective therapy informed by the cutting edge of research on the human bodymind. In sessions, she balances a playful attitude with a very serious commitment to helping persons transform their lives. Outside of sessions, she is a rock-climber, dedicated yoga practitioner, avid reader, and a lover of the arts, plants, animals, wordplay, and cheese.