Christine Gauthier, Licensed Therapist & School Psychologist, Fairfax, VA

Christine began her professional career in 1997 as an AmeriCorps volunteer, serving the newcomer community in San Francisco, CA by enabling participants to become financially independent with marketable job skills. Since then, she has earned over 5,000 hours in pre-licensure training, and professional licenses in clinical mental health counseling and school psychology. For over twenty years, she has honed skills resolving personal and systems issues within family, school and work communities and addressed mood and learning needs.

Christine’s clinical experience includes child and family therapy work in the community mental health and private practice settings, providing consultation with private secondary schools, psychotherapy to their students, and time-limited counseling services to university students.  She has also provided the full range of psychological services to US public schools. Christine is proficient in the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and qualitative information necessary to guide consultation, career and clinical counseling, behavioral assessment, and treatment planning for both children and adults.

Central to her clinical work is developing rapport and understanding the needs of her clients/examinees in concert with approaching problems with warmth and evidence-based therapeutic modalities. Positive Psychology, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy are some of her preferred treatment approaches.  As a professionally trained evaluator, Christine can help families and individuals understand school psychological assessments and reports.

When not working, Christine enjoys volunteering, performing in a community wind ensemble, writing and developing other creative projects, practicing yoga, and running, biking, paddling, hiking and exploring with her dog, Coco.