Christine Penguino, LCSW, CSW

Christine Penguino is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Atlanta, Georgia, with seven years of clinical experience working across the lifespan. She holds LCSW and CSW credentials, indicating advanced training in clinical social work, and has worked in settings ranging from play therapy with young children to grief counseling with grandparents. Her recent clinical focus has included supporting families in the LGBTQIA+ community as they navigate relationship, identity, and family dynamics.

Christine brings a client-centered, goal-directed style to therapy that assumes people generally know where they want to go. She leans toward gently encouraging clients to move at the edge of their comfort zones and often collaborates on practical “homework” between sessions so progress can be noticed and measured. If tasks are not completed, she treats that as information about readiness, motivation, or barriers rather than judgment.

Her clinical interests include work with neurodiverse clients, especially those with autism spectrum or ADHD diagnoses, as well as people managing anxiety, depression, self-esteem concerns, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, relationship issues, and life transitions. She is affirming of kink and BDSM lifestyles, supportive of ethically non-monogamous relationships such as polyamory, and experienced in helping people process shifts away from conservative religious backgrounds.

Outside of her clinical work Christine brings humor and curiosity to life. She enjoys science fiction and fantasy including Asimov's Foundation series and follows its television adaptation, attends regional Burning Man events, creates art from thrifted Barbies, gardens, plays board games and puzzles, and finds calm watching her tank of guppies and ghost shrimp.