Christine Heikkenen-Black, LPC

Christine Heikkenen-Black is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with nine years of clinical experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through periods of change and challenge. She focuses on relationship and family dynamics, career concerns, coping with life transitions, stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, and coaching toward clearer life purpose. Christine also works with attachment issues, chronic pain and illness, communication and control struggles, and challenges such as divorce, fatherhood concerns, and financial stress. She blends evidence-informed methods to help clients manage panic, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and other emotional difficulties while centering each person s lived experience.

Christine draws from a range of therapeutic approaches - including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy - to meet diverse needs. She emphasizes respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care, tailoring conversations and treatment plans to each client s goals and preferences. Christine aims to listen carefully and patiently, helping clients take practical steps even when starting therapy feels anxiety provoking. Her practice offers a collaborative environment where clients and therapist work together to build understanding, improve communication, and move toward meaningful change.