About Cristina
Cristina Filipov is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Nevada who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She is direct and compassionate in sessions and focuses on helping people manage overwhelming emotions and daily struggles.
Cristina draws on practical strategies to support people dealing with ADHD, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and the effects of trauma and emotional abuse. She aims to build a trusting space where clients feel heard and respected.
How Cristina works
Sessions center on understanding each person’s history, strengths, and goals rather than labeling them by diagnosis. Conversations are collaborative and interactive, and Cristina uses tangible tools to improve emotional regulation and coping skills. Cristina uses commonly practiced, evidence-based therapeutic techniques adapted to each person’s needs.
She often combines goal-focused work with skills for managing intense emotions and motivation to change unhelpful patterns. This blend is intended to help clients notice progress and apply new strategies in daily life. Her experience includes supporting people through life transitions, relationship strain, grief, fertility and cancer-related stress, and issues like guilt, shame, and loneliness.
She also addresses impulsivity, communication problems, infidelity concerns, and aging-related questions. Starting therapy is framed as a step-by-step process. Cristina encourages people to begin even when things feel uncertain, and she works with each person to set realistic goals and small, practical steps toward change.
What Cristina works with
The areas below are the ones Cristina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nevada |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many of Cristina's stated approaches are evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and steadier relationships. Motivational interviewing is a conversational style that helps people clarify goals and strengthen motivation for change.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Cristina will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Specific session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm available options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also enables continuity of care during life changes and helps people use new skills in the settings where they live and work. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework so the work continues between sessions.
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