Christine Buckingham is the founder and Executive Director of Life Christian Counseling Network. She has been involved in ministry since coming to Christ in 1979. Prior to returning to school to earn her Master's in Human Services Counseling and her Post-Master's Certificate of Advanced Counseling Studies, Chris worked extensively in women's ministry, was a founding member in a Southern Maryland church plant, served on the executive board of a large home schooling ministry, held various church and community leadership positions, and worked in what would come to be recognized as a lay counseling capacity. After earning her Master’s she began her private practice in Southern Maryland in 2003.

In 2004, she affiliated with Safe Harbor, a practice headquartered in Bel Air Maryland, and assumed the ownership and management of their small practice in Clinton, Maryland, renaming it, Safe Harbor Christian Counseling of Southern Maryland. Over the next 3 years, she expanded into ten sites throughout Maryland, NW DC, Alexandria and Virginia Beach, Va.

In 2008 she dropped her affiliation with Safe Harbor. To better reflect the regional nature and mission of the practice, she renamed the practice, Life Christian Counseling Network.

Chris has profound empathy for people and believes that within a trusting, compassionate relationship longings are identified and nurtured, and wounded hearts are healed. She has experienced how God uses sound clinical interventions to change lives and is passionate about providing a safe haven where people can explore how they can be transformed by God's healing grace and truth. She is a sought after counselor, teaches, supervises new graduate counselors, and writes and speaks on the integration of professional, clinical counseling and Christian faith. She is working on her Doctorate in Counseling Education and Supervision.