Dr. Christine Wilcox, LCSW, LISW

Dr. Christine Wilcox uses a practical, skills-focused approach to therapy. She combines clear strategies with careful listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Dr. Wilcox holds the clinical social work credentials LCSW and LISW and practices in Colorado. She brings 27 years of experience to sessions and centers care on individual women age 18 and older.

Her work emphasizes concrete tools. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses dialectical skills when emotions feel overwhelming, and attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. These methods are used to address relationship struggles, intimacy worries, body image and eating concerns, caregiver stress, ADHD, and aging and geriatric issues among other areas.

Dr. Wilcox explains strategies clearly and models new ways to set boundaries. She encourages developing routines for sleep, nutrition, and movement when they affect mood. She also supports people coping with trauma, addictions, and major life changes by teaching coping skills and step-by-step plans for change.

Her background includes work across many settings such as long-term care, hospice, inpatient and outpatient clinics, schools, and community programs. This variety informs a flexible, practical style that focuses on what will help most in daily life.

To begin, she asks people to try small, doable steps toward goals. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful when coping with anxiety, grief, major life changes, or low motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, such as breaking tasks into small steps, changing negative self-talk, and building routines that support sleep and mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful. This is a team process that considers the person’s goals, daily demands, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past.

Session format details are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and use shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Some formats also make it simpler to continue care during moves or when local services change. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT techniques to remote sessions so people still learn concrete strategies and practice skills between meetings.