Christyn Jaap, LPC

Christyn Jaap is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people sort through relationship issues, anxiety, grief, and shifts in life direction. She emphasizes practical steps that fit into daily life and supports people as they regain a sense of control. Christyn speaks plainly and meets people where they are to set realistic goals together.

She draws on five years of counseling experience and prior work in schools as a teacher, coach, and counselor. That background informs a straightforward style that focuses on thoughts and everyday habits alongside feelings. Sessions often look at how daily routines and thinking patterns affect mood, motivation, and relationships.

Christyn uses approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and elements of the Gottman Method. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, practice different responses, and build small habits that change outcomes over time.

Her work can address a wide range of concerns such as depression, stress, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, parenting challenges, eating issues, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and intimacy-related problems. She also supports people facing career changes, grief, forgiveness, and financial stressors.

Christyn values collaboration and sees the person in front of her as the expert on their experience. She aims to empower clients with tools they can use between sessions and to create a steady path forward.

How her approaches translate to online work

Christyn often uses client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral strategies to address everyday thinking and habits. Client-centered work focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's lead to identify goals and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. She also integrates mindfulness techniques to help people notice reactions and pause before responding.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. She will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn't worked before, then tailor methods to fit those needs. The work is collaborative, with experiments and small habit changes you can try between sessions.

Confirm the specific session formats before booking so you know how appointments will be arranged. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Licensed professionals can help adapt exercises and homework for the online setting so progress continues between meetings.