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Christine Whittaker

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Florida and North Carolina

In-network with

Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cigna, Oscar (Optum), Oxford (Optum), and United Healthcare (Optum)

Specializes in

Anxiety, Family Issues, LGBTQIA+, and Relationship Issues

Great to meet you!

Christine Whittaker has over a decade of experience providing individual, relationship, and family therapy. I have completed Level 3 Practicum Training in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy and authored a co-parent and divorce course curriculum. My extensive experience includes helping people in the community for 18+ years 10+ years in my private practice with individuals, couples and multi partner relationships, mental health disorders, affairs and family systemsI explore common pathways between actions and thoughts and help find growth and change. I individualize treatment for mental, emotional, and behavioral distress and encourage a non-adversarial approach to empower, strengthen, reorganize, or rebuild.

A bit about my approach to therapy

My goal is to help people find meaning and purpose in life, find common pathways between actions and thoughts, and create a safe place to find positive solutions. Empathy, compassion, and understanding help me to take a relational, non-judgmental approach to my work. I provide direct, simple, and straight-forward techniques of communicating that are instrumental in helping people stay grounded, focused, and validated. I prefer to individualize treatment for each client by choosing the specific type of theory or therapy that meets individual, relational or family needs that target the desired outcome of therapy

What you can expect from our first session

This experience, coupled with my inherent integrity, empathy, compassion, and genuine care for my clients' wellbeing, enables a better understanding of unique individual, couple, and familial relationships. This helps to individualize the care I provide to clients and better understand client needs, life patterns, cycles, and unmet needs.


Christine's style is

Empowering
Open-minded
Solution-oriented

Insurance carriers Christine accepts

Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Cigna
Oscar
Oxford
UnitedHealthcare

More about Christine

MA (Master of Arts) at Argosy University
License type: LMFT (Licensed Marriage/Family Therapist) (North Carolina, Florida)
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Languages: English
Works with: Adolescents and Adults
More specialties: Depression, Grief, Loss, Men's Issues, Women's Issues, Identity Issues, and Trauma
Modalities: Multi-Systemic (MST), Attachment Based, Trauma Focused CBT, Gestalt, Structural Family, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Gottman Method / Gottman Couples, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

Location

14502 North Dale Mabry Highway Ste 200
Tampa, FL 33618