Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade, LPCC

Christina (Crissy) Irrgang-Wade is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in Minnesota with 11 years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, patient style and a nonjudgmental presence to sessions. She focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more in control.

Crissy emphasizes trauma-informed care and helps people work through stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She also supports those coping with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and career stress. Her background includes work with individuals facing first responder issues, veteran and armed forces concerns, and multicultural matters including experience with Native American and Ojibwe communities.

Her approach uses Client-Centered techniques to follow each person's lead and build on strengths. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change everyday habits. Emotionally-Focused and Mindfulness therapies help people notice feelings and stay present when emotions feel overwhelming.

Crissy has experience helping teens with anger, motivation, self-esteem, and confidence, and she also works with adults and elders. She describes clients as the experts on their own stories and aims to support people as they make changes that matter to them.

Practical tools and paced conversations are common in her sessions. People can expect clear discussion of goals and actions to try between meetings. This helps the work feel useful in daily life.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following each person's lead and building on strengths. Online sessions using this approach often center on listening, validating concerns, and helping clients set small, realistic goals they can try between meetings.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change reactions. In an online setting CBT can include practical worksheets, agreed behavior experiments, and step-by-step plans to test new ways of coping with anxiety, panic, or low mood.

Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose which approaches fit best based on goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. That choice can be revisited as needs change.

Confirm which session formats are offered before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into a busy life. They can reduce travel time, make it simpler to have a brief check-in during a work break, or allow someone to join when leaving home would be difficult. Licensed professionals aim to adapt tools and exercises so the online setting still supports progress.