Christina Kohfield, LMFT

Therapist in California

Christina Kohfield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 22 years of clinical experience.

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  • Licensed inCalifornia
  • License78980
  • NPI 1871731844
  • Experience22+ years
  • LanguagesEnglish

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About Christina

Christina Kohfield is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 22 years of clinical experience. She focuses on attachment-based work to help people understand how past relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping individuals find steadier ground during hard times.

Christina helps with anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She also supports people facing grief, career changes, burnout, and struggles with eating or sleeping.

Background and approach

Sessions address practical problems like communication, boundaries, and managing intense emotions. Her approach combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and skills drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. That means clients get empathetic listening plus hands-on strategies for changing unhelpful thoughts and coping in the moment.

She also brings existential ideas to help clients look at values and meaning when life feels uncertain. Christina often works with concerns related to abandonment, codependency, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and issues around intimacy and commitment. She frames goals collaboratively and uses short, clear steps so progress is visible between sessions.

People who choose her tend to want a therapist who listens carefully, offers practical tools, and pays attention to relationship patterns that repeat across time. She aims to help clients build stronger connections with themselves and others while managing everyday pressures and big life transitions.

Credentials

LMFT (California)
License 78980 · expires March 2027
NPI
1871731844 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

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Online support

Attachment-informed care and online therapy options

Christina uses attachment-based ideas to help clients notice how early relationships influence present-day patterns. This work often focuses on how people form bonds, react to loss or abandonment, and seek safety in relationships, which can be useful for anxiety, intimacy struggles, and codependency.

She also uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions begin with listening closely to what matters to the person in front of her and reflecting that back without judgment. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is another tool she draws on to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that reduce distress. Together these approaches combine understanding with practical steps to change day-to-day experiences.

Christina treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She works with clients to pick methods that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as needs evolve. That collaborative process helps people try approaches and keep what helps most.

Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and practice new ways of relating, phone can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or life transitions while keeping the focus on building stronger relationships and coping skills.

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Frequently asked

What kinds of problems does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma, addictions, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style blends attachment-based work with client-centered listening and practical skills from CBT and DBT, focusing on both understanding relational patterns and learning tools to cope day to day.

What background and experience does she bring?

She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of clinical experience supporting people through trauma, addiction, grief, career challenges, and chronic stress.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She holds the California LMFT credential and practices in California.

Which languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are offered online?

She sees clients via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How are fees handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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