Christine “Chrissy” Bruso, LCSW
Licensed in Virginia · 14 years in practice
Christine “Chrissy” Bruso uses a person-centered style to help people find practical change.
License and registration
- LCSW, Virginia
- 0904009696 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1134557374 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 14
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check any license with the state board and any NPI with the national registry.
About Christine
Christine “Chrissy” Bruso uses a person-centered style to help people find practical change. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience and works with clients on relationship, parenting, stress, anxiety, depression, and related concerns. She brings a direct but kind approach and focuses on helping people build skills they can use right away.
She draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice thoughts and try small experiments that reduce distress.
Background and approach
Solution-focused techniques help keep sessions goal-oriented and practical. Sessions often include tools for setting boundaries, managing stress, or improving communication. Chrissy has done a range of jobs over the years, from working on a horse farm to helping families through adoption processes.
She has also counseled individuals with autism and their families, which shaped her practical, strengths-based way of working. Those experiences inform how she tailors support to each person’s life and responsibilities. Parents often seek her help for postpartum changes, parenting strain, and rebuilding balance.
She helps people who feel burned out or compassion fatigue recover healthier routines and clearer priorities. She also supports those coping with career stress, body image, self-esteem, and the transitions young adults face. Her style is straightforward and warm.
She offers concrete tools, coaching on boundaries, and short-term strategies alongside deeper reflection when needed. People should expect a collaborative process focused on small steps toward the life they want.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Christine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Christine names
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How these counseling approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and helping people feel heard. Online sessions using this approach center on the client’s goals and values, which can help with self-esteem, family concerns, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing small behavioral changes between meetings to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Solution-focused therapy keeps conversations goal-directed and practical. Sessions tend to highlight strengths, set specific short-term goals, and track small successes to build momentum on issues like parenting, workplace stress, or boundary setting.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining approaches or shifting focus over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when seeing facial cues matters, phone calls can be easier with limited bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be good for short check-ins or for fitting support into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible for parents and people juggling work and family.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What concerns does she commonly help with?
She helps people with relationships, parenting, stress, anxiety, depression, career worries, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, plus related issues like body image and life purpose.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is person-centered, honest, and kind. She uses solution-focused and cognitive behavioral techniques to create practical, goal-oriented sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 14 years of experience across clinical and community roles, including work with adoptive families and people with autism.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Virginia and practices with that credential.
Can I meet with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are billed through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
More therapists in Virginia
See all
Dr. Kayla Thorne
LCSW
Supportive LCSW focused on practical change
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Delores Smith
LCSW
Compassionate practical therapy for life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Grief
Is this your profile?
Ask us to correct details or take the page down.
Contact us