About Christopher
Christopher McCarthy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of practice. He helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain find clearer direction and build more satisfying lives. His approach is calm and collaborative, with room for honest talk and occasional humor.
He holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from The New School and a master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Fordham University. He uses cognitive behavioral therapy as a base and draws on other approaches to match each person’s needs.
How Christopher works
Christopher emphasizes practical skills, mindfulness, and real-world steps that people can try between sessions. Sessions focus on goals the client sets. He helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, LGBT-related issues, eating and sleeping struggles, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, gender dysphoria, and HIV/AIDS related concerns. Christopher adapts pace and techniques to each person. He explains options and works together with the client to choose what fits best.
People who want direct feedback, clear strategies, and a respectful, nonjudgmental space tend to find his style useful. He practices from New Jersey and offers services to people beyond the state. Before booking, readers should confirm the current session options that best suit their needs and schedule.
Christopher lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Christopher works with
The areas below are the ones Christopher selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It focuses on building committed steps toward a meaningful life even when uncomfortable feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical tools to change patterns that hold someone back. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns and can guide short-term skill building.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christopher will review options with each person and decide together which strategies fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration helps shape a plan that can evolve as progress is made.
Confirm the therapist's available session options before booking so you know which formats are offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, avoid travel time, and check in from a convenient location. They can also allow for shorter catch-ups when a quick update is needed or make it simpler to maintain continuity during life changes. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT techniques effectively in remote sessions to support real progress without requiring a different treatment approach.
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