- Bilingual English Spanish
- 20 years experience
- Focus on relationships
About Christina
Dr. Christina Gonzalez combines practical talk therapy with mindful, values-based tools to help people who feel stuck by stress, relationship strain, or past hurts. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with twenty years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and works from Florida.
Her sessions are warm and interactive. She listens closely, helps people name what matters to them, and uses clear strategies to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction concerns, and intimacy or codependency struggles.
Christina draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive-behavioral techniques, attachment-focused thinking, existential reflection, and mindfulness practices. She mixes these approaches in ways that fit each person’s needs instead of using one fixed method. Sessions focus on small, doable steps that add up to real change.
Her background includes work in community mental health and substance use settings, child welfare, and roles with military populations both in the United States and overseas. That scope of experience informs how she responds to culture, stress, and life transitions in therapy.
She aims to make the process collaborative. People who come to her learn practical coping skills, ways to strengthen relationships, and methods to manage overwhelm while keeping sight of what they value most.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values. It often helps people facing life transitions, anxiety, or patterns like codependency by teaching how to notice thoughts and choose value-driven steps. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past and present relationship patterns affect trust and closeness. It can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and feelings rooted in family of origin or abandonment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with straightforward behavioral experiments. This approach is useful for managing anxiety, depression, and anger with practical skill-building.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to try methods that match their goals and comfort level, and adjusts the plan as they learn what helps most. Sessions are conversational and focused on skills you can use between meetings.
Confirm the current session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into busy schedules, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and offer options when bandwidth or camera use are concerns. Licensed professionals adapt exercises and mindfulness practices to work well in remote sessions so therapy can fit into everyday life.
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Experience
20+ years
Credentials
Florida, Arizona, Washington
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, depression, addictions, and codependency among other issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and interactive, combining acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive-behavioral tools, attachment perspectives, existential reflection, and mindfulness practices.
What kind of experience does she bring?
She has twenty years of clinical experience in community mental health, substance use settings, child welfare, and work with military populations in the US and overseas.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She practices in Florida and holds the credentials LPC and LMHC, with licensure noted as AZ LPC and FL LMHC.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a therapy match?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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