Maria Christina
412-259-3310
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Maria Christina empowers clients with tools for emotional fitness, resilience, and whole-person well-being.
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in private practice and also maintains a separate functional wellness practice. She sees clients virtually nationwide in the United States. Havening Techniques® are central to her work, offering clients gentle, practical tools to reduce stress, calm emotional overwhelm, support trauma recovery, and create new pathways for healing and growth.
She integrates Havening with mindfulness, lifestyle and wellness support, nutrition, and compassionate self-awareness to help clients soften rigid thinking, perfectionism, and negative self-judgment. She believes that small, intentional steps can create meaningful and lasting change.
Following her own breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, Maria became deeply committed to researching and training in approaches that support healing, resilience, and thriving. Her experience in hospice care further deepened both her professional insight and her compassion for individuals and families navigating serious illness, caregiving, grief, bereavement, trauma, and major life transitions.
She is especially passionate about supporting those facing cancer and other health diagnoses, end-of-life concerns, identity exploration, perfectionism, and LGBTQIA+ issues within an affirming and supportive environment.
Her training includes certification in brain health through Amen University and Clinics, integrative mental health, mindfulness and meditation, and functional medicine-informed care. She is also a certified Happiness Trainer!
Maria helps clients move beyond overwhelm, anxiety, frustration, defeat, and brain fog toward greater calm, clarity, confidence, and emotional freedom. She believes Havening offers gentle yet powerful tools to help clients feel more grounded, empowered, and connected to themselves.
She invites clients to explore practical and compassionate steps toward healing and wellness — and to rediscover their capacity for resilience, self-trust, and well-being.