About Christina
Christina Kohfield is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She brings 22 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Christina writes in plain terms and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. She uses a client-centered stance that starts by listening and understanding each person's values and strengths.
That makes it easier to build on what already works and to set clear, realistic goals. Christina also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current trust, boundaries, and intimacy.
Her work often includes tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Sessions may include skill practice, gentle exposure to difficult feelings, and problem-solving for day-to-day challenges like sleep, eating, or work stress.
Christina is comfortable addressing sensitive issues such as trauma, substance use, domestic violence, and caregiver stress. She describes her style as compassionate and direct, aiming to help people reduce shame, improve communication, and regain a sense of control.
People who come for therapy can expect a focus on strengths, values, and choices. Christina supports clients in exploring purpose, repairing relationships with themselves and others, and developing tools to manage mood and behavior.
The emphasis is on practical change that fits each person's life.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Christina combines client-centered practice with attachment-based and cognitive behavioral approaches to support people online. Client-centered therapy means she starts by listening closely and meeting each person where they are, then shaping the work around their goals. Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships affect trust, boundaries, and closeness, which can help with intimacy, communication, and fear of abandonment. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing different ways of responding to reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the best mix of approaches is part of the process. Christina collaborates with clients to clarify goals, tries methods that fit their needs, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. She helps people learn skills, practice them between sessions, and check what is or isn't working so therapy stays practical and focused.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not needed, live chat for short check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into work or caregiving schedules, allow a quieter or non-video option when bandwidth is limited, and provide flexible ways to maintain skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English