Christine Lau, LCSW, LICSW

North Carolina · 22 years in practice

Christine Lau is a licensed social worker with 22 years of clinical 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

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Christine

Christine Lau is a licensed social worker with 22 years of clinical experience. She practices in North Carolina and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for people facing stress and major life changes. She helps people manage anxiety, grief, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue.

Christine also supports those dealing with chronic illness, cancer, aging concerns, hospice and end-of-life questions, and workplace stress. Her background as a registered nurse gives her practical perspective when health issues are part of the picture.

Background and approach

In sessions she focuses on finding workable solutions and building skills that people can use right away. She uses short-term, goal-focused techniques to address immediate problems and helps clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns that affect mood and behavior. Mindfulness and motivational approaches are used to clarify goals and strengthen motivation.

Christine describes her role as a guide who helps people tap their own strengths. Together she and a client set clear goals, try strategies, and check progress along the way. If a method isn’t helping, she will suggest alternatives or help connect a person to another therapist.

Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions tend to center on real-life problems and simple tools that can reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Christine aims to make each meeting feel like a useful step forward.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Christine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Online support

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Many techniques Christine uses are practical and work well over video or phone. Solution-focused interventions concentrate on identifying small, concrete steps to move forward and are helpful when facing a specific problem like workplace stress or caregiving overload. Cognitive behavioral ideas focus on spotting patterns in thoughts and behaviors and trying different responses, which can be practiced and reviewed easily in shorter online sessions. Mindfulness and brief meditation exercises are taught and practiced during sessions to help with anxiety, grief, and chronic stress.

Choosing which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they’ll try methods and adjust the plan if something isn’t working, so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.

Online formats offer flexibility and convenience. Video calls are useful for conversational sessions and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit a quick check-in during a busy day, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection and brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while focusing on practical tools and steady progress.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Christine address?

She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue, and also supports people facing chronic illness, cancer, aging and hospice issues and workplace challenges.

What is her therapy style like?

Her approach is practical and collaborative with an emphasis on short-term problem solving, skill building, and checking progress as you go.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 22 years of clinical experience and continues to learn so she can show up effectively for people she works with.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in North Carolina.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.

What session formats does she offer?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How is cost handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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