About Joseph
Joseph Christensen is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 24 years of experience. He focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, addiction, grief, and life changes. Joseph meets people where they are and shapes therapy around each person's goals and priorities.
Before his current practice he gained experience across many settings, including residential programs, inpatient psychiatric work, school-based services, military contexts, forensic work, and community counseling.
How Joseph works
He has worked with issues related to traumatic brain injury and developmental concerns, and has supervised treatment programs for mental health and addictions. Joseph draws on several therapeutic approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and mindfulness practices. He emphasizes empathy, nonjudgmental listening, and practical steps that align with what the client wants to achieve.
Sessions can be brief, intermediate, or longer term depending on need. He also addresses family and parenting concerns, attachment and blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and challenges like social anxiety, sleep difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Career, self-esteem, intimacy, and recovery from trauma or abuse are part of his practice as well.
Therapy is collaborative: clients help set the pace and decide when work is complete. Joseph offers a mix of conversation, skill-building, and reflective work tailored to each person's situation.
Joseph lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Joseph works with
The areas below are the ones Joseph selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead, allowing sessions to adapt to what matters most to the person. Online sessions use that same flexible stance to shape goals and pacing.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. In remote sessions CBT often includes simple exercises and steps to practice between meetings to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or change unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness therapy introduces basic attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These short practices can be guided during video or audio sessions and then practiced between contacts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful, try methods that match personal goals, and adjust techniques based on results and preferences. Clients help decide which tools to keep using.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or mobility is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats as needs change.
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