About Christen
Christen Thompson is an LMHC who brings nine years of professional counseling experience to her work. She focuses on helping people move past addiction, trauma, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship struggles. Christen’s approach is grounded, direct, and aimed at helping clients make real changes in day-to-day life.
Christen uses several practical therapies to guide sessions. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take action.
How Christen works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Attachment-based ideas are woven in to address how early relationships shape current connections. She has a long personal history that informs her work, including a recovery journey that helps her relate to people facing substance use challenges.
That lived experience shaped Christen’s decision to become a therapist and to specialize in addictions and co-occurring concerns. She also has experience designing programs for first responders and leading intensive outpatient work focused on substance use. In sessions Christen keeps language plain and practical.
She helps clients set short-term goals, learn hands-on coping skills, and experiment with small changes between visits. She also supports people who are dealing with grief, parenting stress, sleep or eating issues, and career transitions. Christen practices in Florida and offers online formats for those who prefer remote care.
She works in English and is open to international clients. Prospective clients can start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Christen lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Christen works with
The areas below are the ones Christen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It is useful for anxiety, addiction, depression, and stress by focusing on values-driven steps rather than getting stuck in unhelpful thoughts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, sleep or eating issues, and coping with life changes because it gives clear exercises to practice between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and trust. It can help with intimacy-related concerns, relationship patterns, and attachment issues by encouraging new ways of relating and communicating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christen will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts tools over time based on what is helpful and what feels right for the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth or hands-free check-ins, live chat for quick exchanges, and text-based messaging for brief updates or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, maintain continuity while traveling, or select the format that best supports the work at hand.
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