Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Cristina works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- New York
- Years in practice
- 18
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Cristina
Cristina Spataro is a New York State licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and relationship struggles. She focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and help people make clearer decisions about work, family, and personal life. She prefers straightforward, conversational sessions.
Cristina listens closely and helps people identify what matters most to them. She uses that information to build small, doable goals that lead to steady change over time.
Background and approach
Cristina draws on client-centered methods to keep the session focused on each person's values and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. These approaches are used together to address things like depression, trauma, substance concerns, parenting stress, and self-esteem challenges.
People often come for help when life feels stuck or decisions become hard. Cristina has long experience working with intense moments and also with earlier support to prevent crises. She works with issues related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and communication problems as part of that care.
Her practice is based in New York and sessions are provided in English. Cristina frames therapy as a collaborative process where she and the person decide the pace and next steps. She aims to help people feel more able to cope and to make choices that fit their goals.
What Cristina works with
Everything Cristina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Cristina's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Family problems
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Women's issues
Approaches Cristina lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Cristina's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, understanding each person's values, and letting those priorities guide the work. This is useful for sorting out life choices, relationship concerns, and grief.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. CBT is practical and often includes short exercises to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Cristina will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts pace and techniques based on what is actually helping in session.
Online care is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful when face-to-face interaction matters; phone can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send updates or do brief touch-ins between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make regular work on goals easier.
Questions people ask about Cristina
What kinds of concerns does Cristina address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, parenting strain, self-esteem, career questions, ADHD, and more.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Sessions are conversational and practical. She listens, helps clarify values, and sets small goals people can try between meetings.
What is her professional background?
Cristina has 18 years of experience working with people in crisis and those seeking earlier support to prevent crises.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a New York licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) and practices from New York.
In what languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.