About Therapy with Christine Lucas, LPC, CCTP, CGIP
I help creative-minded adults access their inner artist and leader, find healing resources and get inspired.
You’re living life, holding down a job, trying to do your best…but right now you just feel exhausted, depressed, and overwhelmed. I can help you shift out of this mode and into something new.
About Christine Lucas, LPC, CCTP, CGIP
I am currently a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Grief-Informed Provider, and Certified Clinical Trauma-Informed Professional (Level 1) serving Georgia clients virtually via telemental health sessions. I work to build strong therapeutic collaborations with clients that increase their understanding of how mental well-being is markedly influenced by internal and external factors. I advocate for marginalized people with compassion and skill development intended to further the fullness of their personal and intersectional self-expression as well as healing goals.
I encourage time in nature as part of overall wellbeing but also recognizes how individual and collective wounds are impacted by natural disasters, environmental injustice, social injustice, and climate change. I actively seek out ways to further my capacity to serve in these areas of healing.
I have been a Clinical Mental Health counselor for six years. I received my Master’s degree from South University in Savannah, Georgia in 2019 where my internship hours offered the privilege of counseling at the nonprofit Union Mission. I provided individual and group therapy to the community’s homeless, uninsured, low-income, and returning citizen populations. Post-graduation I spent a year giving one-to-one therapy at Savannah’s Heads Up Guidance Services and began focusing treatment on trauma-informed care.
I have targeted my professional and ethical goals, including mental health advocacy, with a social-ecological worldview. Prior to becoming a counselor I worked for various independent garden centers, taught as an adjunct instructor in South University’s undergraduate Psychology program, and contributed as a freelance writer with columns Thicket to Paradise and Rattled - each published in the Savannah Morning News. I have also had work published nationally in Acres U.S.A., Lawn & Garden Retailer, and on Smithsonian Magazine’s Arts & Culture blog.
I help clients heal individually so that they can embrace collective efforts to move forward after natural disasters and numerous types of trauma.
There is not much more personal than associations with the natural world. It can provide or tear away foundations. It can be the background to joy and terror. Acknowledging the role place plays in both healing and triggering of Post-Traumatic Stress is a passion and focus of my work as a counselor.
Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change touch Georgians and their loved ones in very different ways, because the embodied histories of each person brings both strengths and vulnerabilities. If you’ve ever asked how am I ever going to feel like myself in this place, the anchoring of safety in your nervous system is a place to start. I help clients who are desperate to have things work in new ways and require a therapist acknowledge the lineage of outdoor places.
The state’s natural resources and collective knowledge touches the stratified layers of family, community, and our own minds over time. I use Narrative Therapy in conjunction with different understandings of the ecology to assist clients in rebuilding trust, calm, and curiosity.
With every season, session, and setback there is the constancy of the planet’s cycles. There is birdsong and beliefs that keep you afloat.
Let’s see if working together is a fit.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”