Christine Duffy (LCSW)
Christine Duffy is a compassionate and caring therapist with over 19 years of experience in providing state-of-the-art, evidence-based mental health treatments to help clients make changes to become happier and healthier. Christine has extensive experience in working with adults coping with many mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety, trauma, bipolar disorder. She also has experience in helping clients who are coping with low self-esteem, relationship and family issues, communication difficulties, and anger management challenges. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Social Work Degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
Throughout her social work career, Christine’s clinical emphasis has been working with individuals who have experienced trauma. She has worked extensively with military, law enforcement and first responder clients who have experienced trauma through their professional roles. She also has been dedicated to providing trauma treatment to clients who have experienced domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault.
Christine served in the Army as a social worker from 1999-2003, working with active duty service members, retirees, and their families. Her therapy focus in this role was primarily related to assessing and treating issues related to child abuse, sexual assault and domestic violence. Her time in the Army included a deployment to Kosovo in 2001 as a member of a Combat Stress Control Team.
Christine then transitioned to work for the Department of Veterans Affairs. For five years, she worked in a specialized clinic that provided treatment to veterans who were experiencing PTSD symptoms as a result of combat trauma, sexual violence and/or military related training accidents. She also worked as the Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Department of Veterans Affairs, a role in which she provided crisis intervention and care coordination for individuals at high risk for suicide.
Christine then progressed to a position at a behavioral health organization where she provided individual and group therapy for adults experiencing a wide range of diagnoses, such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, panic attacks and schizophrenia.
Christine has completed training and consultation requirements for the following evidence based therapy modalities:
She has attended in-depth training on the following evidence based therapy modalities, but has not engaged in the consultation or certification process for these treatment approaches.
