ABOUT CHRISTINE
Hi, I’m Christine Yoshida, a licensed professional counselor based in Portland, Oregon, providing online therapy across Oregon and Washington State.
I specialize in eating disorders, disordered eating, body image concerns, perfectionism, anxiety, relationship struggles, emotional overwhelm, and major life transitions.
Before moving into private practice, I worked as a school counselor for 13 years supporting adolescents, families, and school communities. That experience continues to shape the way I work today and deepened my understanding of how anxiety, relationships, emotional overwhelm, and coping patterns often develop over time.
Outside of work, I value time with my children, close relationships, and finding ways to stay grounded and connected in my own life.
WHO I WORK WITH
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, high-functioning, and used to holding everything together for everyone else while privately feeling overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, disconnected, anxious, or stuck in patterns they no longer want to keep repeating.
A large part of my work focuses on eating disorders, disordered eating, body image struggles, and the emotional experiences that often exist underneath them. Over time, I began to understand that food is rarely just about the food.
Often, struggles with food, perfectionism, relationships, anxiety, burnout, or people-pleasing are deeply connected to the ways people learned to cope, stay safe, maintain control, or seek connection and acceptance.
I work primarily with adults and also support adolescents, couples, and parents navigating relational and life transitions.
MY APPROACH
My approach is warm, direct, grounded, and collaborative. I integrate relational, attachment-focused, and emotionally attuned therapy with practical support, honesty, and insight.
Therapy is not about becoming a completely different person or getting everything “right.” It is about understanding yourself more deeply, rebuilding self-trust and body trust, developing healthier boundaries and relationships, and feeling more connected in your everyday life.
My work is informed by non-diet, body-trust, relational, and emotionally focused approaches that help clients move away from shame, rigidity, chronic self-criticism, and all-or-nothing thinking.
I strive to create a space where people do not have to perform, explain themselves perfectly, or already have everything figured out. Therapy becomes a place to slow down, understand yourself differently, and build more honest and connected relationships with yourself and others.
If any of this resonates with you, you are in the right place.
CREDENTIALS
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington. I am also a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, National Certified Counselor (NCC), and AEDP Level II therapist. I completed an Eating Disorder Certificate through Lewis & Clark College.