Christina Kohfield

Christina Kohfield is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience helping people through hard moments. She offers steady, practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her tone is compassionate and direct, aimed at people who need clear guidance and real tools.

She uses a mix of Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, and Dialectical Behavior approaches. That means sessions can include looking at patterns from past relationships, practicing skills for handling intense feelings, and trying new ways of thinking that reduce distress. Conversations focus on what feels most urgent to the client and what will lead to small, achievable change.

Christina often helps people who are coping with grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or major life changes. She also supports those facing eating or sleeping concerns, substance use, anger, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy. Her work includes attention to attachment wounds, codependency, and abandonment fears.

Her perspective is informed by Christian values, and she pays attention to matching care with each person's beliefs and background. In sessions she emphasizes communication skills, self-compassion, and practical strategies for daily life. She aims to help people notice patterns, practice new habits, and feel more agency in relationships and work.

Clients are guided through a step-by-step process: small skill-building tasks, honest conversation about past hurts, and setting realistic goals for change. Christina describes therapy as collaborative work that blends insight with concrete practices to improve day-to-day functioning.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotions. Online sessions using this approach help people notice repeating patterns and try new ways of relating to others and themselves. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. In remote sessions CBT work often includes homework, thought records, and practicing small behavioral changes between meetings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to focus on building emotion-regulation skills, changing thinking patterns, or exploring attachment wounds, and this plan can shift as needs change.

Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life and can reduce travel time. It also lets people do short check-ins when schedules are tight, or choose sessions that are easier on bandwidth if video is difficult. Licensed professionals can guide practical skill practice between sessions to help progress outside of meeting times.