About Joseph
Joseph Christensen is a California-based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 24 years of clinical experience. He draws on long experience in mental health and addiction settings to help people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing big life transitions. He works with individuals on relationships, parenting concerns, career strain, and issues connected to ADHD and attention challenges.
His style is client-centered and pragmatic. He listens first, then helps people set goals and try practical steps that fit their daily lives.
Background and approach
Sessions are nonjudgmental and focused on what the client wants to change or understand better. Joseph uses a mix of familiar approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps address unhelpful thinking and habits.
Mindfulness methods support calm and present-moment focus. He also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when exploring meaning, identity, or long-standing patterns. He has worked across many settings including addiction treatment programs, inpatient psychiatric care, and community counseling.
That background informs his work with trauma, addiction, grief, and complex life-stage questions. Joseph also brings experience with attachment issues, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. In sessions he balances practical coaching with deeper exploration as needed.
People can expect respectful listening, clear discussion of options, and collaborative planning. He supports pacing that fits the client’s life, whether they want short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work.
Approach options for online therapy and how they help
Joseph draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behavior that cause stress or get in the way of goals. CBT is practical and often focuses on skills you can practice between sessions.He also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the conversation on the person in front of him. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and allowing clients to set the pace and direction of work.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. He will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean blending CBT skills for a specific problem with client-centered work for broader life questions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you keep face-to-face contact and read body language. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people continue work across different days and settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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