MEET CRISTI
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Cristi Baskett is a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and pre-licensed clinician who helps adults and young adults who feel disconnected from themselves — stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of their next step — reconnect with who they are beneath the weight of expectation. She works with people carrying the residue of past experiences, relationships, and messages they've absorbed about who they're supposed to be, helping them hear their own voice again.

She is known for creating a space that feels unhurried and genuinely non-judgmental, where clients don't need to arrive with answers already figured out. Cristi believes healing begins when people can slow down, get curious about their own story, and start making choices that feel authentic — rather than shaped entirely by outside expectation.

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What Makes Cristi's Approach Different

Clients come to Cristi feeling pulled in directions that don't feel like their own — navigating a life transition, questioning their identity, managing anxiety or stress, or working through the lingering effects of a difficult experience or relationship. Over time, it can be hard to tell which voice is truly theirs and which is inherited from someone else's expectations.

 

Cristi uses an integrative, person-centered approach grounded in humanistic and strengths-based principles, and informed by a liberation-oriented, trauma-informed lens that recognizes how identity, culture, and lived experience shape a person's story. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Internal Family Systems (Parts Work) to help clients understand the different parts of themselves, build self-trust, and move toward a life that feels aligned rather than performed.

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Cristi has particular expertise supporting Black mental health, racial trauma, and the identity questions that come with navigating adulthood in a fast-changing world, insight she draws on both as a clinician and as a Black millennial woman.

 

Her Specialties Include:

• Anxiety and stress

• Trauma and difficult life experiences

• Self-esteem and self-trust

• Identity exploration, including queer identity exploration

• Life transitions

• Relationship concerns and boundaries

• Burnout

• Women's issues

• Black mental health and racial trauma

• Adults and young adults navigating life transitions

• LGBTQIA+ affirming care

 

Evidence-Based Training

Cristi is trained in evidence-based treatments including:

• ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)

• IFS (Internal Family Systems)

• CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

These evidence-based approaches support her work with clients experiencing anxiety, trauma, and difficult life experiences, helping them build psychological flexibility and a more compassionate relationship with the different parts of themselves.

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Her Role at D.I.V.E.

Cristi is one of D.I.V.E.'s core therapists, bringing an empathetic, identity-affirming approach to work with adults and young adults navigating anxiety, trauma, and life transitions as she works toward full LPC licensure under clinical supervision.

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Beyond the Office

Before becoming a therapist, Cristi worked in real estate, helping people find places that felt like home — and that same passion for belonging now shapes her work as a counselor, where she helps people reconnect with themselves and build a life that feels like home.