Christina Tyhurst , LCSW

Christina Tyhurst is a licensed clinical social worker in California with over 10 years of hands-on experience across educational, clinical, and community settings. She began her career after earning a bachelor of arts in psychology from UC Davis, working in a school program serving children with autism where applied behavior analysis principles and positive reinforcement guided daily skill development and behavior support.

She expanded this work into in-home ABA services for young children, focusing on daily living skills, school readiness, and behavior modification. That early experience informed her later roles supervising ABA programs, managing caseloads of 10 to 15 families, providing parent and staff training, creating individualized programs, and offering case management while building strong rapport with children and caregivers.

Christina went on to earn her master of social work at the University of Southern California, completing internships that included school counseling and work in a partial hospitalization program at a neuropsychiatric hospital. During that time she also earned a PPSC - a school counseling credential - and developed deeper experience supporting families whose children struggled in school for varied reasons.

Since 2017 she has shifted her focus to working with adults on relationship and life skills. Her work emphasizes boundaries, mindfulness, anger management, assertiveness, selecting healthy partners, emotion identification and regulation, and communication. She also explores how attachment styles and the stories people tell about their lives affect growth. Christina believes finding the right therapeutic fit matters and encourages people to explore options until they find a therapist who matches their needs. Taking the first step toward therapy is meaningful, and she affirms the courage it takes to begin.