Christina Rudawski, Doctor of Psychology, IL

Licensed

Online Counseling

(55 reviews)

PsyD, CADC Dr. Christina Rudawski

Provides online counseling through BetterHelp

Mental health conditions are real, common and treatable.

And recovery is possible.

Dr. Christina Rudawski is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.

More about me

Licensing: PsyD, CADC Years in Practice: 14 State: Illinois

Greetings! My name is Dr. Christina Rudawski. Welcome to my practice! I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Certified Alcohol and Addiction Counselor. I obtained my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Midwestern University in Illinois. I completed my internship at Elgin Community Mental Health Center and my postdoctoral training at Larned State Hospital in Larned, KS. I completed an Accelerated Addiction program at College of DuPage and interned at Lutheran Social Services in Elgin, IL. Additionally, I am a licensed sex offender evaluator.

I have a rich experience in applying behavioral science principles in a broad range of diversified settings and a wide variety of clinical psychopathology. My extensive background includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a primary therapeutic modality, consistent with evidence-based practice, and the current managed care environment. My clinical expertise includes Addictions, Adult and Adolescent Psychology, Health Psychology, Rehabilitation Psychology, Integrated Behavioral Medicine, Medical-Psychiatric Comorbidity, Severe and Persistent Mental Illness, Personality Disorders, Parent Coaching, Parent Skills Training in Positive Discipline, Chronic Pain, and Trauma. I am proficient in psychological assessment and psychotherapy. I also utilize Biofeedback and Bibliotherapy as needed.

I believe in the power of self-knowledge. As a psychologist, my goal is to help you uncover your true potential in order to lead a life that is worth celebrating. My goal is to provide you with a safe, secure judgment free environment and to assist you in giving voice to the thoughts and feelings which are difficult to realize and give voice to.

I am a lifelong learner and am updating my skills through continuing education classes in order to provide you with the most up to date techniques and services.

Difficult situations of the past can’t be changed, however, we can work together to improve your personal self-understanding and resolve challenges in your life. Together we will unearth long-standing behavior patterns or negative perceptions that may be holding you back from experiencing a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

I look forward to meeting you and working with you!

About online counseling

Online counseling allows you to receive care from an online mental health practitioner via phone, video chat, or instant messaging. It is convenient for those who may have trouble getting to or would prefer not to have in-person therapy appointments. Starting at $65 per week, online counseling is generally more affordable than in-person counseling. A study by researchers at University of California, Berkeley found that online counseling can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy while being more convenient, affordable, and accessible.

Issues: Stress Anxiety Addictions Trauma and abuse Self esteem Depression Relationship issues Family conflicts Grief Intimacy-related issues Eating disorders Sleeping disorders Parenting issues Anger management Career difficulties Coping with life changes Coaching Compassion fatigue
Languages Spoken: English Ukrainian

Services offered

Professional, confidential, and judgment-free

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I like Dr. Rakowski

Dr. Rudawski is very supportive! With her i don’t feel left with my problems. I feel better after sessions!

Dr. R is wise, empathetic, and she provides me with alot of information and ways to handle my life outside of therapy. She is an integral asset to my healing, tolerance and growth.

Dr. Rudawski is an amazing, active listener and understanding. She makes me feel safe and comfortable to share and I always feel satisfied with our sessions.

Dr. Rudawski is a very nice and empathetic specialist. I recommend

Dr. Rudawski is kind, empathetic and supportive. I'm so thankful I chose her.

After two sessions, I trust Dr Rudawski. She brings immense skill and experience to our sessions, which yield immense, ongoing benefit when I apply (and practice) her insights.

Dr. Rudawski is really understanding and helpful with understanding myself better. I feel very comfortable talking to her.

I’m so thankful I found Dr. Rudawski. She is a great listener, open minded and has great advice and experience. She has been a great support for me and I highly recommend anyone seeking a therapist to talk to her.

Dr. Rudawski is excellent. I appreciated our session and look forward to working with her.

Dr. Rudawski is a breath of fresh air and the best therapist I’ve ever worked with. She is down to earth and easy to talk to, a great listener, helpful and empathetic. She has helped me a lot.

Dr. Rudawski, Help me adjust my outlook on life in the short time I spoke with her. Unfortunately even with their accommodating fees structure, I am unable to continue therapy until I become employed again. I highly recommend Better Help to anyone needing to speak with a professional therapist.

Dr. Rudawski is very professional and listens to what my concerns are without judgement. She sends very helpful information and worksheets to do. I would highly recommend her to anyone.

Dr. Rudawski really listens to what I have to say during therapy, and has given me excellent feedback when I was uncertain about how to address certain elements in my life.

I have not yet been a patient long enough to write a review. However, this has already been a very positive experience for me, and I intend to continue with Dr. Rudawski.

She is excellent. I wish I lived in Illinois so I could still use her. She’s professional and kind. I would not hesitate recommending her to anybody. The problem I ran into with other professionals on here are their lack of education and it showed in their therapy sessions with me.

I’m very thankful for my therapist. I enjoy my sessions with her and she has been very helpful in my recovery on a weekly basis for the past 5 months.

Dr Rudawski provides many resources that can help me with some of my issues I’m dealing with. She is a very good listener and from her years of experience, she seems to have some sort of solution or suggestion that makes sense to me.

She is good and kinda understands where i come from. Never judges me. Tries to find a solution collectively by understanding more about me.

Dr. R is wonderful! She has experience and that is so valuable to my processing. She is kind, caring and insightful.

Christina is a great therapist and she has been a great help in my journey of understanding myself better. She provides a safe space which is very helpful to connect with yourself as well as accepting yourself.

Dr. Rudawski is a great therapist because she listens to your concerns and offers really good solutions. She has been a great help in this difficult portion of my life.

Dr. Rudawski is very easy to work with. She will work with you to get to the root of your problem and help you find the right tools to handle it.

She's amazing. I always look forward to speaking with her. She's kind, understanding and helpful. Doesn't judge. Honest.

Christina is a kind, thoughtful and empathetic person..which translates directly into our sessions. I find that she asks thoughtful questions that steer me towards what I should be thinking about, and meets my failings with empathy and understanding. I find that even with our short time together, we have managed to build trust and I value that deeply. She makes sure that my homework is focused and not overwhelming in its volume. I have already stated implementing grounding techniques that have helped me reduce my anxiety in an incredibly stressful time. I am very grateful that we were paired together and I look forward to growing from our sessions.

We are still early on in our meetings, I have only spoken to her briefly, so I can provide more feedback at a later date

Dr. Christina is a warm and caring therapist. I feel listened when i talk to her, so I am willing to open up myself to her, which is the first step toward healing and relationship building. I am still in the process of counseling session and looking forward to a brighter future.

Dr. Rudawski is a wonderful, experienced therapist. She listens to what you are going through and helps you to come up with ways to cope with your situation. She validates your emotions and uses her personal experiences to relate to your situation. I highly recommend her!

A good all around and punctual therapist. Easy to talk to and very understanding.

She was pleasant to talk with:)

Dr. Rudawski is the only real cheerleader I have in my life who isn't first thinking about herself. She regularly checks in on me to see how I am doing. No one else does that forme. She also gives me thoughtful exercises to do which really get me both thinking and feeling, which lead me to new insights about myself, my inner workings, and deeper understanding. Her calm, yet steadfast demeanor is just the right kind of emotional safety net I need to feel and be better. I am grateful I found her. BetterHelp has turned out much better than I expected. Thank you!

Dr Rudawski is an excellent listener. She’s really good at relating to your situations and she’s happy to share about her life and experiences. I feel Dr Rudawski really cares and she’s helped me in a few sessions to make some realizations. She checks in between sessions too which I appreciate. I would highly recommend Dr Rudawski. She is lovely.

Always does great with listening

She is awesome and I really feel like she understands and respects me and looking forward to more sessions

Dr. Rudawski has been of great help so far even after only two sessions. She has helped me take a mindful of stressors that became overwhelming as a whole and helped me to separate and organize my thoughts so each one thing didn’t feel as stressful as all of them together. She has also shown me ways to deal with my emotions when they become too much to handle in the moment and I am practicing them. Dr. Rudawski is easy to talk to and seems to relate to issues I’m having and she presents good takes on my issues giving me other ways of looking at things, which I find helpful. I’m looking forward to continuing this journey with her and taking control of my anxiety and stress to hopefully avoid becoming overwhelmed again.

Dr. Rudawski is absolutely wonderful. She doesn't just listen she truly hears you.

Dr. Rudawski is easy to talk to. She listens and allows you to open up about how you are feeling about different situations. Would highly recommend.

The Doc has been absolutely fantastic for me. I wasn’t doing too well when I started talking to her but she was patient, kind and really helped to put me on the right path. I’m in a much better place 6 months down the line and it wouldn’t have been possible without her guidance and work. Thankyou so much.

Great experience

She knows her stuff and is great to talk to. Creates a comfortable environment to trust and share!

Dr. Rudawski is attentive, supportive, and caring. She thinks about the issues in my life and guides me to make better decisions. I love talking with her

Dr Rudawski is kind and compassionate. She’s exactly who I needed to help me work through a very difficult time.

Dr. Rudawski has helped me so much! I look forward to our talks and couldn’t imagine life without her.

She is great at listening

Dr. Rudawski has been kind and compassionate during our talks. She’s been tremendously helpful as I work to navigate my mental and physical health concerns.

I’ve never had a great experience with therapy, until now!! Dr. Christina is amazing and has helped me so much. She was a great match for me and she really has put things in perspective for me. She’s exactly what I needed.

Dr. Christina has helped me with learning assertive communication which I really appreciate.

It was very nice talking to her this morning. I like her suggestions and would like to see about getting a life coach for myself also at some point. She gave great advice and I got the feeling she could almost read my mind. I enjoy her help and guidance a lot.

Dr Christina really understands the issues im going through and is great at trying to help me find the best way to cope with them.

Dr. Rudawski is very sweet and I find her to be very easy to talk to. She listens well and always offers advice and positive quotes to enhance my day. She is kind and she is someone I am comfortable opening up around. She doesn’t pressure me to answer right away if I can’t and she shows genuine concern. Thank you, it means a lot to me

Dr. Rudawski was very quickly able to size up my situation, my concerns and my challenges. She is very responsive and has laid out a treatment plan, which I feel is exactly what I need

I think she is amazing and listens very well, I like her very much :)

Dr. Rudawski, I like that you're a very good listener and you advised me to improve in a lot of areas in my life in such a short time I started this programme.

Dr. Christina is an absolute treasure. I am so thankful that I have been matched with her. She is a wonderful listener, we communicate very well, I can talk to her about anything and she gives me helpful tools to use throughout the week.

Dr. Rudawski is deeply compassionate & professional in equal measure, I instantly felt at ease in her presence, I trusted her immediately and therefore have been and am still able to speak openly about that which I haven’t had to opportunity to speak of properly before. After only our second appointment I felt a noticeable difference in my sleep and I also felt a reduction in self-doubt which has been a demon that has attached itself to me for a long time. So, in short, I am feeling relief already, I know there is lots more deep work to do but I realise that seeking & finding professional help of this standard is a necessary step in my growth & healing. I am very grateful for this support and the direction it is allowing me to go in.

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