About Christy
Christy Howard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She holds LCSW licenses in Kentucky and Indiana and brings decades of community-based practice to her work. Christy welcomes straightforward conversations about hard things and focuses on practical steps a person can take between sessions.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. That can include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral tools, attachment-focused ideas, emotionally-focused work, and a client-centered stance.
How Christy works
Sessions focus on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, attention concerns, and life transitions. Christy has long experience responding to crises, including more than 16 years as a counselor for a suicide hotline in Louisville, Kentucky. That background shapes how she handles safety, strong emotions, and sudden life changes.
She also has training and certification related to autism supports and play-based approaches. In sessions she aims to be down-to-earth and practical. Conversations tend to include clear goals, skill-building, and careful listening.
People often leave with concrete things to try between meetings. Christy also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and career concerns. She addresses a wide range of life challenges, including trauma and abuse, body image, adoption and foster care topics, and divorce or separation.
Christy lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Christy works with
The areas below are the ones Christy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them while learning ways to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence one another and uses practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, mood challenges, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early and current relationships shape responses to stress and closeness and can be helpful for intimacy-related concerns and relational wounds.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Christy will collaborate with each person to decide which ideas and tools feel most useful. That decision is based on the client's goals, preferences, and what shows up in early sessions, with plans adjusted as progress is made.
Confirm the available session formats before booking to know what specific online options are offered. Many people find remote work easier to fit into busy schedules, allowing shorter check-ins or evening times that match work and caregiver demands. Online sessions can also let a person join from a quieter setting or choose an option that does not require video, which may make it easier to focus on skills and discussion without extra preparation.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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