About Christina
Christina Kohfield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 22 years of clinical experience. She focuses on clear, practical work to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma, and ADHD. Christina aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful from the first session.
She uses a mix of evidence-based methods and relational work. Sessions often look at patterns in relationships and attachment, then pair that with skills from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Dialectical strategies and mindfulness tools are added when emotional regulation or distress tolerance are needed. Christina pays attention to life roles and practical pressures. She helps with career strain, caregiver stress, sleep and eating struggles, and coping with big life changes.
She also supports people facing grief, intimacy issues, codependency, and substance concerns through focused goal-setting and real-world strategies. A Christian-informed perspective is part of her practice, so she takes clients' values and beliefs into account when shaping treatment. That means conversations about purpose, meaning, and moral concerns are welcome when they matter to the person in front of her.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Christina blends supportive listening with concrete tools - such as behavioral experiments, communication practice, and safety-focused planning - so people leave with steps they can try between sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and adult relationships shape current feelings and reactions, helping people spot patterns that cause conflict or loneliness. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and empathy so the person feels heard and can explore values, identity, and purpose at their own pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches straightforward tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday struggles.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's life and adjust as needed based on progress and comfort.
Online formats make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions are useful when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, coping strategies between sessions, or flexible ways to process thoughts that come up during the week. These options aim to make regular work on goals more achievable.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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