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Chris
Buckingham, M.A., NCC, LCPC
 Christine
(Chris) Buckingham agrees with scripture that, “hope deferred makes the heart
sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life”, and believes that the counseling
relationship is where longings often are identified and nurtured and where wounded
hearts are healed. She knows through experience that within a compassionate, trusting
relationship, God uses sound, clinical intervention to change lives.
Her
specialties of practice include issues dealing with Christian growth and development,
home-schooling, women’s issues, including post-abortion issues, HIV/AIDS, couples,
weight and body image, eating disorders, obsessive and compulsive behaviors, panic
attacks and anxiety disorders, and depression including bi-polar. She also has
worked with clients diagnosed as having personality disorders, including schizophrenia,
borderline, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors. Chris
earned a Masters’ degree in Human Services Counseling and a post-masters Certificate
of Advanced Counseling Studies (equivalent to an additional year of graduate study)
from Regent University, is a Maryland Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
(LCPC), and a nationally certified counselor (NCC). Besides providing counseling
services, she is the Executive Director of Safe Harbor Christian Counseling of
Southern Maryland, which provides Christian, clinically- and Biblically- sound
counseling services throughout Southern Prince George’s, Charles, Calvert, St.
Mary’s counties and Northern Virginia. Chris
interned with the Charles County Department of Mental Health and completed a practicum
with the Chaplain’s Family Life Training Center at Ft. Belvoir Army Base in Virginia.
Chris is a New Life Network therapist and has worked with New Life Minstries since
2003 as a group facilitator at the Lose it For Life (LIFL) intensives, She also
is a host on the LIFL weekly web chat each month and a regular contributor of
articles for the web site. Chris
is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), American Association
of Christian Counselors, (AACC), Christian Assn. for Psychological Studies (CAPS),
and the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling
(ASERVIC). She is a referral counselor for Remuda Ranch, an in-patient treatment
facility for treating patients with severe eating disorders. Chris and her husband
recently celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary. They have one child, a son,
who attends Grove City College in Pennsylvania. They regularly attend McLean Bible
Church in McLean, VA |
