Christine Heikkenen-Black, LPC

Christine Heikkenen-Black is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with nine years of clinical experience. She works with individuals, couples, and families to address relationship concerns, family challenges, career decisions, and the many stresses that accompany life transitions. Her practice includes support for anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma and abuse, and coaching to help clients find clearer direction and greater resilience.

Christine offers focused care for a wide range of issues, including attachment difficulties, chronic pain or illness, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, feelings of emptiness, family conflicts, fatherhood concerns, forgiveness work, life purpose exploration, midlife transitions, financial stress, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety. She draws on a broad toolkit of evidence-informed methods to match the approach to each person’s needs.

Her clinical approach integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. These modalities are blended to create individualized treatment plans that emphasize practical skills, emotional insight, and relational repair.

Sessions are offered in flexible formats to fit clients’ lives, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Christine is currently accepting clients in Colorado and works in English. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, she aims to provide respectful, attentive, and compassionate care while tailoring therapeutic work to each person’s specific situation.