Christine Heikkenen-Black , LPC

Christine Heikkenen-Black is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with nine years of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate relationship challenges, addiction, trauma, and major life transitions. As an LPC she has graduate-level training and the credential to provide professional counseling and psychotherapy.

She works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, family conflict, communication difficulties, and issues related to chronic illness or disability. Christine also supports clients facing career and financial stress, parenting and fatherhood issues, divorce and separation, and the search for life purpose or meaning.

Her approach blends evidence-informed methods to meet each person where they are. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to support values-driven change, Attachment-Based Therapy to address relational patterns, and techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to teach practical coping skills. Christine tailors treatment plans to individual needs and emphasizes collaboration, respect, and sensitivity throughout the therapeutic process.

Christine provides services in English and is currently accepting clients in Colorado. She aims to create a supportive environment where clients can build insight, improve relationships, and develop strategies to manage symptoms and move forward with greater confidence.

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Relationship and Life Work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes by teaching skills for accepting difficult thoughts while committing to action.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape expectations and patterns with others. This approach is helpful for improving trust, communication, and connection in couples and family work, and for addressing attachment-related anxiety or avoidance.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship that supports self-exploration and personal growth. It is well suited to clients seeking a collaborative space to process emotions, clarify goals, and build self-compassion.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine will work with each client to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adapt the plan over time based on what proves most helpful.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions are available by video call, by phone, through live chat, or via text-based messaging - making it easier to fit care into busy schedules, to access support from home, and to maintain continuity of treatment even when routines change.