- Attachment-focused care
- Client-centered sessions
- 22 years experience
About Christina
Christina Kohfield is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with over 22 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, direct support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and complex life changes. Her style is compassionate and practical, focused on what helps a person feel more steady day to day.
She uses several approaches to meet real-world needs, including attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings, client-centered conversations that follow the person's priorities, and cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Christina brings these methods together to help people manage panic, social anxiety, grief, and addictive patterns.
Her sessions often address relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem and body image concerns, caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, and work or career stress. She also supports people dealing with anger, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and the emotional fallout of separation or loss.
Christina describes her perspective as strength-based and Christian-informed, and she pays attention to each person's values and background when shaping goals. She aims to help clients build resilience and find clearer direction in life, while offering steady validation during hard moments.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
She uses several approaches to meet real-world needs, including attachment-based work to look at how relationships shape feelings, client-centered conversations that follow the person's priorities, and cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Christina brings these methods together to help people manage panic, social anxiety, grief, and addictive patterns.
Her sessions often address relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem and body image concerns, caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, and work or career stress. She also supports people dealing with anger, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and the emotional fallout of separation or loss.
Christina describes her perspective as strength-based and Christian-informed, and she pays attention to each person's values and background when shaping goals. She aims to help clients build resilience and find clearer direction in life, while offering steady validation during hard moments.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Relationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD
Additional focus areas
AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunctionSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy
Experience
22+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
How Christina's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships affect how someone feels and behaves. Online sessions can use this approach to gently identify patterns in relationships and practice new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-centered therapy centers the person's own goals and pace, offering listening and reflection so the client leads what matters most. That style fits well with conversation-focused online sessions where the therapist follows the client's priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, involves noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It can be useful for anxiety, panic, sleep and mood concerns and often includes homework between visits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christina will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and values. Together they set practical goals and try strategies that can be adjusted over time based on what helps.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm available options before booking. Many people find online therapy helps fit care into a busy life by reducing travel time, making it easier to schedule appointments around work or caregiving, and allowing shorter check-ins when needed. Online work can also make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions, while still focusing on the same attachment, client-centered, and CBT tools used in traditional sessions.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
Christina works with many issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and chronic illness or pain.
How does she approach therapy?
Her approach blends attachment-based work, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques. Sessions focus on practical steps and on understanding how past relationships shape current reactions.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has 22 years of clinical experience supporting people through complex life challenges and transitions, including panic, social anxiety, caregiving stress, and recovery from abuse.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a California licensed marriage and family therapist, listed as LMFT, and she practices in California.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.