Christopher Dennison
Calm, practical support for family challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Christopher
Christopher Dennison is a licensed marriage and family therapist with eight years of clinical experience. He practices in Tennessee and uses approachable, direct communication to help families and adults facing relationship stress, mood changes, and parenting challenges. He focuses on practical steps families can take, explaining ideas in plain language so parents can act between sessions.
His sessions are warm but straightforward. Christopher draws on attachment concepts to look at how family patterns affect current struggles.
Background and approach
He also uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. Christopher pays attention to how relationships shape emotional life. He helps clients notice patterns that keep problems repeating and then try different ways of responding.
That might mean practicing new conversations, shifting daily routines, or learning simple skills for emotional connection. He brings particular experience addressing depression, family problems, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, relationship stress, and career-related strain. He also works with attachment issues and mood disorders as part of that scope.
Sessions aim to be collaborative. Christopher explains options, offers feedback, and supports families as they try new behaviors at home. He encourages steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes.
How Christopher’s Approaches Translate to Online Family Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. In practice that means noticing unhelpful thoughts, choosing a value-driven step, and practicing it between sessions to build momentum.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns show up in current family life. Sessions focus on understanding those patterns and trying different ways of connecting so relationships feel safer and more responsive.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on identifying and shifting the emotional interactions that keep couples or family members stuck. It helps people name core feelings and practice new responses that change how they relate to each other.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christopher will talk with each family about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. He checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let families meet face to face from home, phone sessions fit into busy days, and live chat or text-based messaging provide short, ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to use new skills in real life and to stay consistent with therapy while managing family schedules.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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