Christine Ryan, LPC

Christine Ryan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings decades of clinical experience to clients navigating life transitions, relationships, grief, stress, and career or parenting challenges. She earned her master’s degree from Arizona State University and has long experience in psychiatric hospital social work and mental health center settings, giving her a broad background in both acute and long-term care.

Throughout a career that spans many years in private practice, Christine has blended traditional psychotherapy with life coaching to help people move from understanding their situation to making practical changes. She practiced for many years in Dallas before relocating to the Bay Area, where she expanded her work to include telephone and online services and took on roles with decision-making and life-reimagining programs. She completed training in Disaster Management and is certified as a telephonic critical incident responder, which complements her experience supporting people through trauma and crisis.

Certified as a life coach in 2011 through Coach Training Alliance, Christine integrates coaching skills with therapeutic approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Solution-Focused Therapy. Her clinical work addresses anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, divorce and separation, grief and loss, chronic and catastrophic illness, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and a range of family-of-origin and communication problems. She also offers targeted support around issues that frequently affect Baby Boomers as they face new chapters in life.

Christine is a cancer survivor and has personal insight into coping with serious illness, an experience she draws on when working with clients confronting health-related life changes. Her practice emphasizes a practical, phase-based approach - clarifying what is happening, exploring the effects of those experiences, and identifying the next steps that lead to meaningful change. Christine is based in Texas, conducts sessions in English, and is not currently accepting new clients or international clients.