Christina Swanger, LISW

Christina Swanger is an Ohio-licensed independent social worker (LISW) with 11 years of professional experience. She works with adults who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, people facing family conflict, and those coping with trauma, abuse, or major life changes. Christina also supports clients concerned about self-esteem and confidence and people noticing patterns like codependency or attachment struggles.

She approaches sessions as practical conversations. Christina treats clients as the experts on their own lives and helps them name what is getting in the way. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps rather than abstract theory.

In the room she listens for patterns that repeat across relationships and daily choices. Together with the client she looks at how past family experience, abandonment or blended-family dynamics affect current reactions. The work often includes learning to set boundaries, manage urges tied to impulsivity, and respond differently to guilt and shame.

Christina draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people regulate anxiety, reframe self-critical thinking, and plan concrete behavior changes. She also addresses practical caregiver stress, fertility-related concerns, and struggles around body image and forgiveness. Progress is tracked in clear ways so clients can see what changes.

Clients begin by identifying immediate problems they want to change. From there Christina helps build skills for steadier emotions, clearer limits, and stronger self-respect. She asks direct questions and offers straightforward exercises to practice between sessions.

How evidence-based work translates to online sessions