Christine Lau, LCSW, LICSW

Licensed in North Carolina · 22 years in practice

Christine Lau is a licensed clinical social worker based in North Carolina with 22 years of experience.

License and registration

LCSW, North Carolina: C005209 · expires February 2027
LICSW, Minnesota: 33903 · expires July 2026
NPI: 1972869733 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 22
Languages: English

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About Christine

Christine Lau is a licensed clinical social worker based in North Carolina with 22 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Christine also supports those navigating illness, hospice and end-of-life concerns, caregiving strain, and workplace stress.

She relies on straightforward, practical work in sessions. Christine helps people set clear goals and learn skills they can use right away. She describes her role as a guide who points out strengths and helps clients try new ways of coping.

Background and approach

Her background includes social work practice combined with nursing experience, which informs support for health-related issues and caregiving challenges. She holds an LCSW in North Carolina and an LICSW in Minnesota, and brings more than two decades of clinical experience to her work. In sessions Christine uses brief solution-focused strategies to identify steps forward and cognitive-behavioral ideas to notice unhelpful thinking patterns.

She also uses motivational interviewing to clarify what clients want to change and mindfulness practices to build present-moment coping skills. Clients can expect a collaborative process. Christine checks progress, adjusts the plan when needed, and can help find a different therapist if the fit isn’t right.

Her aim is to help people build skills that ease current challenges and stay useful later.

Focus areas and approaches

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Christine often uses brief solution-focused work, which zeroes in on small, concrete steps to move forward and helps people focus on what they want next rather than rehashing the past. This approach is useful for stress, decision points, and short-term goal work.

She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and shift behaviors that keep problems going. Those techniques are often helpful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with chronic illness or pain.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences, try them for a while, and change course if something isn’t helping. The process is collaborative and paced to what the client wants to accomplish.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility around work, caregiving, and medical appointments. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging can fit quick updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Christine commonly help with?

She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. She also focuses on illness, hospice and end-of-life issues, chronic pain, caregiving strain, and workplace problems.

What is her therapy style like?

Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions focus on setting goals, practicing skills, and checking progress as work moves forward.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She brings 22 years of clinical experience to her practice, and continues to learn and adapt her approaches over time.

What credentials and region are listed?

She holds an LCSW in North Carolina and an LICSW in Minnesota, and is based in North Carolina.

Which languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are offered?

Services are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.

How does cost and billing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

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