Christine Heikkenen-Black, LPC

Christine Heikkenen-Black is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado. She brings nine years of counseling experience and focuses on relationship and family concerns, stress and anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, and support for life transitions. Her approach aims to help people feel heard and to build practical skills they can use between sessions.

She uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. That can include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and increase meaningful action, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and Attachment-Based methods to address connection and trust. Sessions emphasize clear steps, skill practice, and steady progress rather than jargon.

Christine draws on a long background in education and rehabilitation counseling to help clients manage chronic pain, illness, and disability alongside emotional concerns. She also works with clients facing divorce, financial strain, fatherhood issues, and midlife questions. Her work includes attention to communication problems, control issues, and healing from post-traumatic stress.

In sessions she aims to listen carefully and tailor conversations to each person’s needs. The first meetings focus on understanding what matters most and making a practical plan. She encourages small, doable steps so change feels manageable.

People who choose her often want straightforward guidance, tools to cope with strong feelings, and help rebuilding relationships. Christine describes starting therapy as a brave step and offers gentle support through the early stages of change.

How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that reflect those values. It is useful for life transitions, chronic stress, and situations where someone wants more meaning despite ongoing challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It is often used for anxiety, panic, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how connection and trust affect current relationships and helps people build safer, more reliable ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best given their goals and preferences. That means trying approaches, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than following a fixed script.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm the session options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example, by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins between commitments, or offering sessions when leaving work briefly is simpler than a longer commute. Therapists can guide exercises, assign practice between sessions, and focus on skills that translate to day-to-day situations, helping clients apply new tools where they need them most.