Christine O'Connor, LCSW

Christine O'Connor is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in New Hampshire with 27 years of professional experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related concerns and codependency-related patterns.

Christine treats each person as the expert on their own life. She listens to what is happening now and what has felt hard over time. Together she helps clients notice strengths and practical steps to manage upsetting feelings and difficult situations.

Her approach focuses on clear, down-to-earth work in session. Conversations often include identifying unhelpful patterns, learning new ways to set limits, and practicing coping skills for strong emotions. She helps people talk through relationship strain and recurring behaviors that leave them burnt out or overwhelmed.

Christine draws on many evidence-based techniques to guide the work with real problems like sleep disruption, addictive behaviors, or grief reactions. She pays attention to how stress shows up in daily life and to ways people recover balance after loss or trauma.

Clients who have long-standing patterns of people-pleasing or difficulty saying no may find sessions address those specific habits. The goal is to help people notice what drains them and to build more steady ways of coping and relating.

Background and approach: Christine believes change happens with steady, practical steps and honest conversation. She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful, focusing on what can be tried between meetings. For many clients this includes practicing boundary setting, emotion regulation tools, and small behavioral changes that add up over time.

Evidence-based approaches and online sessions