About Cristina
Cristina Perez is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and parenting challenges. She works with concerns like self-esteem, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and issues related to LGBT identity. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people find practical ways to feel better day to day.
Cristina uses clear, skills-based methods to help people cope with life changes and career stress.
How Cristina works
She often focuses on communication problems and caregiver strain, helping clients develop tools to handle tense moments and ongoing pressure. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on small, achievable steps. Her approach includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions to change unhelpful patterns.
She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the impact of past harmful experiences and to build safety and stability. These methods are adapted to each person’s needs and pace. With 14 years of experience, Cristina draws on practical strategies that people can use between sessions.
She aims to boost coping skills, reduce symptoms of mood disorders, and improve social anxiety and phobia symptoms. The work is paced to fit each person’s goals. People seeking help can expect a respectful, down-to-earth clinician who listens and offers concrete techniques.
Cristina supports clients as they practice new reactions, build resilience, and make steady progress toward better mental health.
Cristina lists 2 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
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
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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
How CBT and Trauma Work Online
Cristina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety or depression. CBT sessions online focus on concrete skills like planning small behavior changes, testing unhelpful thoughts, and practicing new reactions between sessions.She also integrates Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of past harm. Online trauma work moves at the client’s pace and often includes grounding techniques, safety planning, and processing experiences in ways that feel manageable for the person.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust methods as work progresses to find what produces the most relief and progress.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send quick updates, ask questions between sessions, or use a written format instead of speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep work moving forward.
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