About Cristina
Cristina Lopez-Mera is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and mood concerns. She practices in Florida and offers care in both English and Spanish. Cristina takes a straightforward, calm approach to help people untangle difficult feelings and practical problems.
She meets each person where they are and focuses on short-term goals alongside long-term growth. Sessions blend talk-based work with practical tools for coping, emotion regulation, and decision making.
How Cristina works
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to build skills that people can use between sessions. Cristina also draws on client-centered and existential ideas to help people explore values, meaning, and life purpose. Motivational interviewing is part of her work when people want to change habits or address addictions.
She tailors methods to fit the situation rather than following a single style. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including relationships, career stress, grief, self-esteem, and family of origin issues. Cristina also works with multicultural and immigration-related concerns, aging and geriatric issues, and financial stress.
She includes practical problem-solving for hoarding, infidelity, divorce and separation, and codependency. Sessions are offered through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Cristina aims to help people find useful strategies for coping with life changes and moving toward goals at a pace that feels right.
Cristina lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Cristina works with
The areas below are the ones Cristina 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Cristina’s approaches work online
Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical exercises to change behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with stress.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity. These techniques give people concrete tools to manage worry, calm down, and return attention to the present moment.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cristina will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adapt methods over time. That way the plan fits what feels helpful rather than forcing a specific model.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging let people check in between appointments or use shorter, more frequent contacts when needed.
These options offer flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. The therapist will help choose formats that match practical needs and therapeutic goals.
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