Cristina Malone, LISW-CP

Cristina Malone is a licensed social worker in South Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She focuses on building self-esteem, coping with life changes, and managing panic attacks. Cristina aims to create a supportive space where people can talk honestly and begin making practical changes.

She uses straightforward, goal-focused methods to improve communication and reduce emotional overwhelm. Sessions often center on identifying what matters most, noticing unhelpful patterns, and trying new ways of responding. Cristina pays attention to caregiver strain, divorce and separation, and issues around forgiveness and life purpose.

Cristina brings three years of clinical experience to her work and maintains the LISW-CP credential, which indicates licensure as an independent social worker with clinical practice privileges in South Carolina. She draws on a mix of approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and a client-centered stance.

In sessions she helps people develop concrete coping skills and tools for everyday life. That can mean practicing grounding for panic, experimenting with communication techniques, or outlining steps for a life transition. The focus is practical change rather than labels or diagnoses.

People meet her in a collaborative, nonjudgmental way. She encourages self-compassion and realistic goals. To start, she asks about priorities and creates a plan that fits each person’s situation and rhythm.

Approaches that translate to online work

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test out different behaviors to reduce worry and low mood. It often involves setting small experiments and new routines that can be practiced between sessions.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It’s useful for people who want more purposeful direction amid stress or life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. That collaborative decision makes it easier to try techniques and adjust them as needed.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time. It also lets people practice new skills between meetings in their usual routines, so learning transfers directly into daily life.