- Years in practice
- 22
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Christina
Christina Kohfield is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience. She uses a kind, practical approach to help people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck. She often works with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and parenting concerns.
Christina favors methods that focus on relationships and present-day skills. Sessions begin with clear goals and small steps you can try between meetings. She helps people notice patterns in how they relate to others and practice new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses trauma, grief, and emotion regulation. She offers help for problems like panic, shame, sleep or eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Christina also supports people facing life changes such as divorce, career shifts, or caregiving stress.
Christina describes her style as empathetic and collaborative. She brings together attachment ideas, cognitive tools, and mindfulness to tailor the work to each person. She also integrates existential questions about meaning when that fits the client’s needs.
Clients can expect a straightforward focus on practical skills and clearer relationships. Christina pays attention to values and cultural background while helping people build resilience. Her aim is steady progress, not quick fixes.
What Christina works with
Everything Christina lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Christina helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Christina lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-driven online therapy for real-life parenting challenges
Christina uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. This approach helps people notice old patterns, improve connection, and reduce anxiety around caregiving and intimacy.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers straightforward techniques for coping with panic, low mood, sleep or eating problems, and unhelpful thinking that gets in the way of parenting or work.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Christina collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. Together they set practical goals and try small experiments to see what helps most.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, while phone sessions can fit a shorter break at work. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use coaching-style support when brief updates are helpful.
Questions people ask about Christina
What kinds of concerns can be addressed in sessions?
Christina helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, anger, and self-esteem challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is empathetic and collaborative, blending attachment-based ideas with client-centered care and practical cognitive and mindfulness tools to build coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 22 years of experience working as a therapist in California across a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, practicing in California.
Are sessions offered in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist scheduling; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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