About Christina
Christina Kohfield is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience in California. She focuses on practical, compassionate support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and relationship concerns. Christina aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first session.
Christina uses talk, skill practice, and gentle reflection to help people manage strong feelings and painful memories. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current patterns.
How Christina works
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT strategies to teach emotion regulation and coping skills. Her work often centers on everyday struggles such as sleep or eating difficulties, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and burnout. She also addresses intimacy challenges, commitment worries, grief, and life transitions.
Christina pays attention to how chronic pain, illness, or disability can affect mood and relationships. A plainspoken and respectful listener, she helps people sort priorities and take small steps that fit their life. Sessions mix talking, skill exercises, and practical homework when helpful.
Christina includes clients' values, including Christian-informed perspectives when relevant, and tailors her approach to each person. People come for help with a wide range of concerns, from substance use and codependency to bipolar mood management and ADHD-related struggles. Christina focuses on building resilience, improving communication, and helping people regain a sense of purpose and agency.
Christina lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Christina works with
The areas below are the ones Christina 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How attachment and skill-based therapy work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape emotional patterns and current bonds, helping people understand why they respond a certain way in close relationships. Client-Centered Therapy centers on being heard and respected; the therapist listens closely and helps clients find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and is useful for anxiety, depression, and habit changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as needed. This collaborative process lets treatment shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and guided exercises, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, and chat or text can be good for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting real life.
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