About Christiane
Christiane Soehnlein greets people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, stress, or painful relationship and intimacy issues. She is a California licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - with 20 years of experience.
Background and approach
Her approach aims to create steady, usable change so daily life feels more manageable. Christiane listens for what matters most to each person and shapes sessions around that.
Conversations focus on what’s happening now and what patterns keep causing pain. She helps people make small shifts that add up to clearer choices and calmer days.
Her practice covers a range of concerns including trauma and abuse, relationship conflict, postpartum depression, mood disorders, and issues around commitment, infidelity, and communication. She also works with people facing cancer, abandonment, or a midlife crisis who want practical ways to cope.
Sessions balance emotional processing with hands-on strategies. Christiane offers ways to handle triggers, reduce avoidance, and improve closeness when intimacy is hard.
She explains ideas simply and helps people try new skills between meetings. Christiane conducts work in English and German and sees people remotely from California.
She invites anyone ready to make a change to consider a gentle, steady path forward and to begin with a short matching process to find the right fit.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christiane uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine emotional work with practical skills. One approach focuses on understanding how past wounds shape current reactions and relationships, helping people recognize patterns and practice new responses to reduce conflict and emotional pain. Another approach emphasizes short-term behavioral strategies to lower anxiety and manage mood, teaching concrete steps people can use between sessions to feel steadier.Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist partners with each person to review goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what actually helps. That shared planning makes it easier to match an approach to someone’s day-to-day life and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and speak in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, and flexible contact between meetings. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, or medical appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, German