Cris Corzine-McCloskey
MSW, LCSW & Agency Director
Cris Corzine-McCloskey earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Central Florida and her Master’s degree in Social Work from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has served at Caring Counseling Ministries since 2008 and brings experience across nearly every area of counseling, from marriage and family work to addiction, trauma, and everyday life struggles.
Cris is not your average Christian counselor — and she never pretends to be.
Before becoming a therapist and nonprofit executive, Cris lived on the other side of the systems she now leads. A former drug addict who has been sober for over twenty years and who served time in prison, she knows what it feels like to lose everything and have no way out — except grace. Her recovery is not a story of self-improvement, but of being rescued by Jesus when she could not rescue herself.
Today, Cris is the Executive Director of Caring Counseling Ministries, a nonprofit agency rooted in the belief that no one is beyond redemption. CCM serves those who don’t fit neatly into the world — people struggling with addiction, trauma, anxiety, OCD, poverty, and deep shame — because those are exactly the people Christ has always gone after.
Clinically, Cris specializes in anxiety disorders, OCD, attachment wounds, eating disorders, and trauma. Her approach blends evidence-based care such as CBT and exposure therapy with faith-sensitive counseling that honors both psychological truth and spiritual reality, including space for doubt, anger, and honest wrestling with God.
She is also the creator of Gracie the Wonder Dog, a children’s book series inspired by the same grace that saved her — stories that gently remind children they are loved, protected, and never too broken to be held by God.
Because of her own journey, Cris believes there is no such thing as a hopeless case. She welcomes people from every background and walk of life, offering a counseling space marked by dignity, safety, and respect — including those who have felt rejected or harmed by religious spaces.
Cris works with individuals, couples, and families, with a special heart for marriage counseling. She believes healing begins with knowing who we are in Christ and how deeply we are loved. When she’s not counseling, she’s usually with her husband and their joyful pack of unruly dogs.
The scripture that best captures her story is Romans 5:20–21 (The Message):
“Sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace… Grace… invites us into life — a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.”