Christina Kohfield
Support for parents and family life
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christina
Christina Kohfield is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 22 years of clinical experience. She practices in California and focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and broad life transitions. Christina uses clear, direct conversation and steady guidance to help people make manageable changes.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions. She also uses client-centered methods that follow a person’s pace and priorities.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are applied to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into clearer, actionable steps. Her work often centers on communication, coping skills, and rebuilding routines around sleep, eating, and daily structure. Christina helps people talk through grief, workplace stress, caregiver strain, and issues tied to self-esteem and body image.
She also supports those dealing with substance use and compulsive behaviors. Sessions tend to focus on short, practical exercises and steady skill-building. Christina aims to create straightforward plans people can try between meetings, then review and adjust as needed.
She pays attention to how life roles and responsibilities affect emotional health. Her credential is Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT, licensed in California (CA LMFT 78980). Christina conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In practice this means noticing how connections with others affect stress, parenting, and communication, then practicing new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience and goals at the center. Sessions focus on listening, reflecting, and following the client’s pace so plans grow out of what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used alongside these approaches, breaks down thoughts and behaviors into small, testable steps to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about options, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps. That way the path forward fits the person’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than being one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, follow up between meetings, and use techniques in real time. For many people the range of online options makes consistent work on stress, parenting, and daily routines more achievable.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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