Christina Kohfield , LMFT

Christina Kohfield is a California-licensed therapist who brings a deeply compassionate and individualized approach to helping people navigate difficult life challenges. With more than two decades of clinical experience, she focuses on issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, and personal growth, tailoring support to each person’s unique circumstances. As an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), she integrates relationship-focused perspectives with practical strategies to address both individual and interpersonal concerns.

Her work emphasizes creating a supportive space where clients can explore self-compassion, strengthen communication skills, counter isolation, and clarify life purpose. Christina has developed particular expertise in areas including social anxiety, guilt and shame, panic disorders, and complex interpersonal dynamics, and she frames interventions from a strength-based, empathetic stance. She also brings a Christian-informed perspective and prioritizes matching clients with care that honors their values and background.

Christina aims to help people build resilience, process past experiences, and move toward meaningful change. Her style balances validation and practical guidance, helping clients translate insights into sustainable steps for healing and growth.

Practical Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Christina Kohfield draws on approaches that support both individual healing and relational change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of connection and safety in relationships, helping people address issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, and intimacy-related struggles by exploring how early and current relationships shape present reactions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental stance in which the therapist listens closely and helps clients access their own resources for growth; it is useful for building self-esteem, addressing life transitions, and clarifying personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and panic, and to teach practical coping skills.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Christina collaborates with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and together they determine which methods to emphasize and how to adapt them for online work. This collaborative planning helps clients feel involved and supported in shaping their care.

Online therapy with Christina is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity through transitions, and access support from home or other convenient locations. These options increase flexibility and help clients engage in sustained therapeutic work on terms that suit their lives.