About Christine
Christine Berberian is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 14 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD challenges, or big life changes. Her approach is warm and direct and aimed at making small, practical shifts that add up over time.
She works with individuals facing relationship or family tensions, grief, trauma and abuse, and problems with intimacy or self-esteem.
Background and approach
Christine also supports people dealing with addictions, bipolar disorder, eating concerns, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her practice addresses everyday pressures like career strain, money worries, and caregiver stress as well. Sessions focus on clear goals and conversations that match each person’s needs.
Christine explains options plainly and adapts tools so they fit the client’s life. She shapes short-term steps and longer-term strategies depending on what the client wants to change. Her style is respectful and nonjudgmental.
She pays attention to patterns such as attachment wounds, abandonment fears, impulsivity, and communication problems. Christine blends practical techniques with steady support to help clients make measurable progress. People who are ready to try a different way of handling old problems often find her practical focus useful.
She encourages action between sessions and helps clients track small wins. Christine welcomes questions and works collaboratively to find approaches that feel manageable and realistic.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Christine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on problem-solving and behavior change. One common approach emphasizes building concrete coping skills and habits - it teaches practical steps to manage stress, regulate mood, and reduce impulsive reactions. This can help with anxiety, ADHD-related distractibility, and anger.Another core approach examines relationship and attachment patterns to improve communication and emotional connection. It helps people understand repeated interaction patterns, repair ruptures, and set clearer boundaries. That work is useful for intimacy concerns, caregiver stress, and family tension.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust plans when something isn’t working. Clients decide which techniques feel most useful and Christine adapts the pace and focus accordingly.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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