Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade, LPCC

Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade is a Minnesota-licensed clinician with 11 years of professional experience who practices as an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She is also certified as a tele-mental health provider and offers trauma-informed care with attention to intergenerational patterns. Her clinical training includes Play Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and she draws on these methods to tailor support to each person's needs.

She provides Brainspotting, an advanced brain-body approach used to support healing from emotional trauma, abuse, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction. Christina explains Brainspotting as a technique that helps people access and work through deep-seated stress and traumatic material by attending to the way the body and nervous system hold those experiences. She brings patience, understanding, and a nonjudgmental presence to her work.

Christina has experience working with teens around anger management, motivation, self-esteem, and confidence, and she also enjoys supporting adults and elders. She has many years of experience working with Native American communities and with the Ojibwe culture. Christina believes that each person is the expert of their own story and that personal strengths can support meaningful change. She aims to support and empower people as they take the courageous steps toward a more fulfilling life.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Trauma-Informed Care

Christina integrates Client-Centered Therapy in her work, offering a warm, empathic stance that helps people explore their experiences at their own pace and build self-awareness and confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can be especially effective for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) supports people in understanding and reshaping relational and attachment patterns by focusing on emotions and the ways they are expressed and responded to in relationships.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Christina works with each person to assess goals, preferences, and life circumstances and tailors treatment using one or a combination of these approaches so the work fits the individual.

Online therapy with Christina is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and accessibility. These options make it possible to schedule sessions around work, school, caregiving, or other responsibilities, and they support consistent engagement when in-person visits are not feasible. As a certified tele-mental health provider, she adapts her techniques to work effectively in remote formats while keeping the focus on practical progress and personal growth.