About Christen
Christen Thompson, LMHC, brings nearly a decade of licensed clinical practice to her work. She speaks plainly about recovery and mental health, and helps people notice what’s getting in the way of daily life. Her approach is grounded and practical.
Christen draws on therapies that help people make small, useful changes. She uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to address anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape behavior. Her background includes long experience in addiction services and work with people facing trauma. Christen began in behavioral health roles in 2004 and completed a Master’s degree in counseling before becoming a Florida licensed mental health counselor.
That path gave her direct experience running programs and working one-on-one with people who want change. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and daily skills. Conversations often include planning manageable steps, spotting unhelpful thinking, and practicing strategies to manage intense feelings.
She pays attention to how past hurts affect current reactions and supports people as they try different responses. Christen also supports people dealing with relationship stress, grief, sleep or eating problems, career strain, and compassion fatigue. She offers flexible online options including video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication styles.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments, making it a practical option for depression, anxiety, and daily routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people develop different ways of relating and regulating emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christen collaborates with clients to pick strategies that fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts methods as people learn what helps. That shared process aims to make therapy feel relevant and doable rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues for more interactive skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing and need short, frequent support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting work, family, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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