Christina Frank

I believe in everyone’s inherent ability to create positive change. Utilizing a compassionate and strengths-based approach to the therapeutic process, I employ a variety of techniques to help clients achieve their internal and relational goals. I incorporate systemic and attachment-based models to increase self-awareness as clients work toward growth and understanding for issues including difficult life transitions, personal insecurities, anxiety, depression, trauma, marital distress, and infidelity. I create a safe, nonjudgmental therapeutic space through empathy, patience, and curiosity, while providing each individual and couple concrete strategies and clear feedback that becomes the foundation for lasting change.

I am a trauma-informed therapist, Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and I draw from attachment theory and IFS (Internal Family Systems) to support individuals and couples as they work towards healing. In addition to my hourly clients, I run individual and couple EMDR Intensives to help people experience relief more quickly than is possible in traditional weekly therapy. In the long run, Intensives are more cost-effective and efficient because therapy is concentrated and highly focused. Please click here for more information on EMDR Intensives.

I specialize specifically in treating complex developmental trauma, which refers to the persistent attachment ruptures in family of origin dynamics that result in feelings of isolation, shame, anxiety, low self-worth, perfectionism, guilt, and grief. I am the creator of the “Have You Called Your Mother/Parents?!” group series, which is a set of groups in which individuals can connect and support one another in their experiences with emotionally immature mothers or parents (narcissism, neglect, substance use, shame/criticism, dismissiveness, and more). See more information on this series HERE.