About Christine
Christine Berberian is a California licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship strain. She writes plainly and listens carefully. Christine aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and steady.
She draws on 14 years of clinical experience to build treatment plans that fit each person. Sessions focus on practical strategies and clear goals. Christine adapts conversations so they match what a client needs right now.
How Christine works
Her work often addresses intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar. She also supports people dealing with trauma, attachment wounds, and feelings of isolation or shame. Christine brings attention to patterns that keep problems repeating and teaches alternatives to try between sessions.
Clients can expect straightforward communication about progress and next steps. Christine pays attention to life context - including caregiving burdens, chronic illness, money stress, and midlife transitions - when shaping therapy. She also addresses issues like body image, impulses, and control struggles.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person's readiness for change. Christine emphasizes compassion for hard feelings while encouraging practical problem solving. Her aim is to help people move toward greater stability, clearer choices, and more satisfying daily life.
What Christine works with
The areas below are the ones Christine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with healthier choices; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Another approach centers on attachment and relationship patterns to help people understand closeness, abandonment fears, and communication problems; this can help with intimacy issues and repeated conflicts.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick approaches that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That means trying techniques, checking how they fit, and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and a full session format. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can provide shorter touchpoints, ongoing support between appointments, and more flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different life situations.
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A practical next step
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