Christie Maether
Supportive, practical therapy for life transitions
LMHC New York
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Christie
Christie Maether is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who blends practical, evidence-informed methods into a person-centered style. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with acceptance-oriented and skills-based tools to help clients notice how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and to build concrete habits that ease distress.
Background and approach
With a decade of experience in community mental health clinics and schools, she brings a grounded, pragmatic perspective to common life challenges. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and navigating major life changes.
Christie has particular interest in issues that surface during young adulthood and in women’s lives, including caregiver stress, communication and commitment difficulties, family of origin dynamics, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and struggles with guilt, shame, or self-love. She emphasizes collaboration, helping clients clarify values, set boundaries, and make small, sustainable changes that align with their goals.
Clients who are motivated to understand themselves better and take actionable steps toward change will find a supportive, nonjudgmental partner in her. Christie focuses on treating the whole person by attending to beliefs, habits, relationships, and context rather than looking for a single cause or quick fix.
Practical approaches for online growth and resilience
Christie commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when working with clients online. CBT focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building concrete behavioral changes to reduce distress and improve functioning. ACT emphasizes clarifying personal values and learning to accept difficult internal experiences while taking committed action toward meaningful goals.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christie works with each person to consider their needs, goals, and preferences and may blend techniques from multiple traditions to find what fits best. This shared decision-making helps shape a plan that feels doable and aligned with the client’s priorities.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and accessibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow for timely check-ins between longer sessions, and create space for consistent progress regardless of geographic constraints. Licensed professionals can adapt these formats to support skill building, problem solving, and value-based change.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Licensed
New York
Languages
English