Christina Laydon

Christina Laydon is an LICSW - a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - practicing in Massachusetts. She has 24 years of experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, mood changes, grief, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and anger. She describes her work as collaborative and straightforward. She wants clients to feel heard and respected from the first visit.

Christina has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. That background means she has seen a wide range of concerns across different stages of care. She draws on practical tools to help people manage symptoms and move toward clearer goals.

Her counseling style is interactive and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps clients define realistic goals and small steps to reach them. She offers guidance and suggestions while paying attention to each person’s priorities and sense of progress.

Clinically, she uses a mix of approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. Those methods are used to teach skills, reframe thinking patterns, and find workable solutions for daily problems.

Christina often helps people with caregiver stress, social anxiety and phobia, self-esteem issues, and coping with life changes. She invites a steady, practical pace so changes feel manageable rather than overwhelming.

She encourages anyone considering therapy to take the first step and complete a short questionnaire to begin matching and scheduling. Christina aims to partner with clients as they work toward clearer, more sustainable ways of handling life’s challenges.

How her approaches can work online

Christina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing them with practical steps to reduce anxiety and low mood. DBT teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.

She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to zoom in on what is already working and to set small, achievable goals. That approach is direct and future-focused, often producing quick, usable strategies for daily life. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process; she will work with each person to find what fits their needs, goals, and preferences.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. The main practical benefits are convenience and easier fit with busy schedules. Online appointments can reduce travel time, make it simpler to fit a session into a workday, or allow shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals often adapt CBT, DBT, and solution-focused methods to remote sessions so skill practice and goal-setting remain central to progress.