Therapist profile
Christina Kohfield, LMFT
California
California LMFT - relationships and codependency
Continue with ChristinaWhere Christina stands
- Credentials
- LMFT
- License
- LMFT, California / 78980
- NPI
- 1871731844
- Experience
- 22 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- California
About
- Attachment work
- CBT strategies
- DBT skills
About Christina
Christina Kohfield is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 22 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and relationship challenges. Her practice also addresses codependency, grief, intimacy-related issues, and life transitions.
Christina uses straightforward, client-centered methods to help people clarify what matters to them. Sessions focus on practical skills like emotion regulation, communication, and problem solving. She integrates ideas from attachment work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Her background includes long-term work with people dealing with substance issues and domestic violence effects. She also supports those struggling with caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and the fallout from separation or divorce. She brings experience helping people manage bipolar symptoms, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Christina notes a Christian-informed perspective and pays attention to each person’s values when therapy is discussed. That means exploring how beliefs influence choices and relationships, and making treatment fit those priorities. She aims for clear, respectful conversation about goals and next steps.
In sessions she combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques with attachment-focused conversation and Client-Centered listening. This mix is used to teach coping tools, improve communication, and reduce patterns of people-pleasing or over-responsibility. People leave with concrete skills they can use between sessions.
How sessions work
How Christina blends evidence-based approaches for online work
Christina frequently draws on attachment-based therapy to look at how early relationships influence current relating. That approach helps people who feel stuck repeating the same patterns, including those who overgive or struggle with closeness. She also uses Client-Centered therapy, which focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. This helps clarify values and motivations so goals feel realistic and personally meaningful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping steps. CBT techniques are useful for anxiety, depression, and for changing behaviors tied to people-pleasing or avoidance. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan together as progress is reviewed. Confirm the current session formats before booking. The main practical benefit of online sessions is fitting therapy into everyday life - they can make it easier to have shorter check-ins on a lunch break, avoid travel time, or attend when schedules are tight. If a simpler setup is needed, the therapist and client can choose approaches that work with quieter surroundings or lower bandwidth rather than long in-person meetings.Areas of focus
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Experience
22+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship and codependency issues, among other challenges.
How would she approach people-pleasing or boundary problems?
She combines attachment-based ideas with CBT and DBT skills to identify patterns and practice setting limits in everyday situations.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Christina has 22 years of experience as a therapist in California, working across a wide range of mood, trauma, and addiction concerns.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a California LMFT and practices in California.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with clients outside the U.S.?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.