Christine Partamian

Christine received her bachelor’s degree in French literature and language from the American University of Paris, France. After her undergraduate work overseas, Christine returned home to the US and earned her MBA from the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. After many happy years working within the apparel industry, both domestically and overseas, Christine began to question the fulfillment she had long since enjoyed from the world of fashion. After re-evaluating her fundamental life values, Christine yearned to live and work in closer alignment of those principles and values.

In 2025, Christine earned her master’s degree in professional counseling from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. While working at The Anxiety Center at Renew Counseling, Christine gained significant experience assisting in the facilitation of an adult intensive outpatient program (IOP) focusing on anxiety, OCD, and perfectionism. The adult IOP at The Anxiety Center provided Christine with incomparable experience working with severe cases in anxiety disorders, OCD, and more. In addition to these concerns, Christine has experience working with trauma, paranoia, intrusive thoughts, perfectionism, procrastination, building frustration tolerance, creating effective exposures, as well as developing mindfulness and gratitude.

In Christine’s work, she is particularly passionate about helping people move through personal and professional significant life transitions, navigating relationships, understanding emotional boundaries, facing body image concerns and disordered eating behaviors, increasing self-esteem, and decreasing negative self-talk by determining the source of those negative self-beliefs and challenging them. Christine also hopes to help people navigate the rough path of grief and loss, not only in relation to family and friends, but also the sadness and emptiness we feel when the end of a significant life chapter arrives. Christine’s passions in mental health are fueled by her desire to help clients face and overcome various life challenges that draw from the knowledge and strength gained from her own personal life struggles of not measuring up to family and society expectations, dealing with criticism, codependency, navigating complicated relationships, and finding the strength to build a meaningful life on her own terms that align with her fundamental life values, not the values of others.

Christine uses a combination of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) to help clients identify the root cause of their negative self-beliefs that get in the way of leading fulfilling and meaningful lives. Through tailored psychoeducation, Christine hopes to help people gain a deeper understanding of their mental and emotional processes, learn to make room for uncomfortable feelings, and accept what is (and what is not) ultimately within their control. Christine also hopes to help clients develop and build various intervention techniques that foster and bolster increased self-awareness, increased frustration tolerance, and the ability to manage one’s thoughts and feelings that lead to greater life satisfaction. She strives to do all this within a welcoming, safe, supportive, collaborative, and encouraging environment.

You can make an appointment with Christine by emailing her at Christine.doorsofhope@gmail.com