Christen Thompson, LMHC

Christen Thompson is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (FL LMHC) with nine years of professional practice. She focuses on addictions, trauma, mood and anxiety concerns, and related life stresses. Christen also works with people facing codependency, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges.

She speaks plainly in sessions and draws on several established methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based work. Christen grounds conversations in everyday experience and helps people notice how past patterns still shape current choices. Sessions tend to focus on practical skills and clearer awareness rather than technical jargon.

Christen's background includes long experience in addiction recovery and work in substance use treatment settings. That history shapes how she approaches people who have lived with addiction, co-occurring mood conditions, or chronic stress. She has also developed and run clinical programming for first responders, which informed her administrative and supervisory perspective.

Her style uses client-centered principles to listen first, then teach coping skills like emotion regulation and values-based action. She pulls from DBT skills when people need tools to manage intense feelings and from ACT when values and committed action are the next step. The emphasis is on small, doable changes that fit daily life.

People come to Christen to untangle people-pleasing and codependent patterns, to set clearer boundaries, and to manage cravings, anxiety, or depressive symptoms. She works with adults who want straightforward strategies and an honest view of how past experience shows up now.

How her approaches translate to online work