Christine Garwick-Foley, LPC
Minnesota · 25 years in practice
Christine Garwick-Foley is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience supporting adults through hard life moments.
License and registration
- LPC, Minnesota
- 00101 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1346883501 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Christine
Christine Garwick-Foley is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience supporting adults through hard life moments. She focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety, manage grief, and rebuild motivation. Her work emphasizes respectful listening and helping people use their own strengths to move forward.
She uses Hypnotherapy alongside client-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people access calm and change unhelpful patterns. Sessions involve gentle guidance, talking through current struggles, and practicing small skills to handle stress, sleep problems, and low mood.
Background and approach
Techniques are selected with the person's goals in mind rather than fitting everyone to one method. Her background includes long experience in grief, trauma, chronic pain, and depression. That perspective shapes how she helps people facing career setbacks, relationship strain, or life changes such as divorce and caregiving stress.
She also addresses issues like body image, attachment concerns, and challenges linked to aging or chronic illness. Christine holds an LPC credential and practices in Minnesota. She offers ways to build new coping habits, improve communication, and reduce avoidance.
Sessions balance practical exercises with space to process emotions so people can leave with a plan for the week. Her style is steady and approachable. When someone first reaches out, she helps them identify a few clear goals and steps to try between sessions.
Over time the work is adjusted to what helps most and fits daily life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Christine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Christine names
- Hypnotherapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Hypnotherapy is used to guide relaxation and focused attention to help people explore thoughts, feelings, and habits that contribute to anxiety, sleep problems, or low motivation. It often involves calm verbal guidance and imagery to practice new mental habits. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration, giving people space to tell their story while the therapist reflects and helps clarify priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. This collaborative process means techniques can be mixed so the plan matches personal needs and preferences.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and guided exercises that benefit from face-to-face cues. Phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option for people who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or mobility limits.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, sleep and eating concerns, anger, and coping with life changes among adults.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach blends client-centered listening with structured methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and hypnotherapy to help people access resources and change unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does the therapist have?
The therapist has 25 years of clinical experience working with adult clients on issues such as chronic pain, grief, depression, and trauma.
Where is the therapist based and what credential do they hold?
She practices in Minnesota and holds an LPC credential, listed as MN LPC.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with this therapist?
International clients are not currently accepted; services are offered to people located where she is licensed.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does the subscription and cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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