ROBINSON, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE
Cristina Panaccione, LPC
“To help people navigate life’s challenges and build the fulfilling life they deserve.”
Cristina Panaccione is the founder and clinical director of CPA Counseling, with over two decades providing compassionate care to individuals and families. A Licensed Professional Counselor, she specializes in depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions across the lifespan, with deep expertise in marital counseling and crisis intervention. She sees clients at the Robinson office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
WHO CRISTINA WORKS WITH
Who she’s for
Cristina works with adults, teens, couples, families, college students, and LGBTQ+ clients. Over twenty years across that whole range — individuals, couples, and families.
why work with Cristina
She built this practice
Cristina founded CPA Counseling and hand-selects every therapist in it, to make sure each client gets ethical, skillful, heart-centered support. The standard she holds the practice to is the one she works to herself.
HOW CRISTINA WORKS
Eight approaches, tailored each time
Cristina describes her approach as eclectic and her plans as tailored. Twenty years is what makes that a method rather than a lack of one — she has had time to learn which approach suits which person.
CONDITIONS TREATED
What Cristina treats – who Cristina sees
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Marriage & Couples
- Family Issues
- Controlling Relationships & Gaslighting
- Life Transitions
- Women’s Mental Health
- LGBTQ+
- Self-Esteem
For couples
Gottman Level 2 — past trained
“To help people navigate life’s challenges and build the fulfilling life they deserve.”
CARE PHILOSOPHY
Warm and down-to-earth. Tailored, not standard.
Cristina’s stated mission is simple: to help people navigate life’s challenges and build the fulfilling life they deserve. Twenty years in, that is a statement of what she thinks therapy is actually for — not symptom management, a life.
Her approach is warm, down-to-earth, and eclectic. She believes in collaborative care and works closely with clients to identify their own needs and goals, then draws on frameworks including Family Systems Theory and TF-CBT to build a plan that fits the person rather than the diagnosis.
That belief extends past her own caseload. Cristina hand-selects each therapist in the practice so that every client receives ethical, skillful, and heart-centered support — which means the standard on this page is the standard across all four offices.
ABOUT CRISTINA
The practice she built
Cristina is the founder and clinical director of Cristina Panaccione and Associates Counseling, where she brings over two decades of experience providing compassionate care to individuals and families.
A licensed professional counselor, Cristina specializes in treating depression, anxiety, and life transitions across the lifespan, using a warm, down-to-earth, and eclectic approach to therapy.
She has deep expertise in marital counseling, crisis intervention, school-based therapy, and trauma-informed care. She draws from a variety of clinical frameworks — including Family Systems Theory and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy — to create tailored treatment plans that support healing, resilience, and personal growth.
With a strong belief in collaborative care, Cristina works closely with clients to identify their unique needs and goals. She also hand-selects each therapist in the practice to ensure that every client receives ethical, skillful, and heart-centered support. She holds a Master’s in Counseling from Waynesburg University and sees clients at the Robinson office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.
Years in Practice
Robinson & Telehealth
Founder & Clinical Director
Hand-selects every therapist
Personalized Care Plans
No program commitments required
CONDITION GUIDE
Therapy guides from Cristina Panaccione
Mental Health
What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Parasocial Connection
Why millions feel they truly know someone they’ve never met — the psychology of parasocial connection, when it’s comforting, and when it’s telling you something.
Anxiety
When Anxiety Starts Making the Rules
Anxiety rarely announces itself as anxiety — it arrives as good judgment, feeling like being careful, responsible, or thinking ahead, and by the time you notice, it may have been making your decisions for years. OCD is mostly internal: intrusive thoughts, mental checking, rumination, reassurance-seeking. Both respond well to treatment.
Anxiety
When Your Whole Life Runs on Someone Else’s Schedule
Becoming a parent can rewrite your schedule, your identity, and your sense of control — and for many people it shows up as anxiety and overwhelm. Therapy helps you understand what’s driving it, set it down, and get yourself back.
Mental Health
It’s Okay to No Estar Bien
In Philadelphia’s Latino community, strength and sacrifice run deep — and it’s still okay to ask for help. Therapy en español means being understood in your own language and culture, without leaving either at the door. Está bien pedir ayuda.
Couples & Marriage
The Same Fight, On Repeat
Most couples don’t come to therapy because the love is gone — they come because they keep having the same argument and can’t find the exit. The content of the fight rarely matters; the pattern underneath it does. Couples therapy helps you see that pattern, interrupt it, and rebuild the connection beneath the conflict.
Mental Health
The Same Hill, Two Experiences: Tandem Cycling & CBT
The same hill can feel completely different to two people riding it together — for one, speed means danger; for the other, speed means fun. That gap is a central idea in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): our emotions are shaped not only by what happens to us, but by how we interpret it. CBT helps us notice those automatic interpretations and respond with more balance. Christina Binder, LSW practices in Center City Philadelphia and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.