Christina Dunning (she/her)

Techniques I Use

Issues I Treat

Specialties

• Personal Growth
• Relationship / Marriage Issues
• Family Conflict
• Codependency
• Women's Issues

• Personal Growth

  Using our counseling relationship as a foundation from which to grow and heal, together we can explore patterns and roles that were once helpful or necessary, but no longer serve you, deepen understanding and acceptance of underlying emotions, values and needs, and help you gain freedom in choosing how to be in the world and with those you love. 

• Relationship / Marriage Issues

  Often times, coping skills that were helpful earlier in life become patterned ways of relating. While these can continue to serve us in certain situations, they can also get in the way of connecting meaningfully or can lead to conflict with those we love. In counseling, we can explore those patterns together and develop and practice new ways of relating and connecting.

• Family Conflict

  So often, the patterns of relating we develop in childhood persist in our adult relationships. This can be particularly apparent in our relationships with family. Counseling offers a place to explore those patterns and a space to develop and practice new ways of relating in a meaningful way as families grow and change.

• Codependency

  In childhood, we often learn that there are parts of us that are acceptable and parts we must keep hidden. We do this because it is necessary for our survival to maintain our relationships with our caregivers. When our caregivers are not able to meet our needs, we can learn to exile them, and to instead tend to the needs of others. In our work together, we can begin to grow awareness of these patterns, to meet them with curiosity and compassion, and to learn new ways of relating to ourselves.

• Women's Issues

  In our society, women are so often taught to put their needs second and to be warm and consistently pleasant to those around them. While these qualities can sometimes be helpful, they can also trap us in patterns in which we lose track of our needs and disconnect from our authentic selves. Counseling offers a place to reconnect with oneself and explore and practice boundary setting and self care.