About Christen
Christen Thompson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who draws on nearly a decade of clinical experience to help people move through addiction, trauma, anxiety, and mood struggles. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. Christen emphasizes building awareness and skills that fit into everyday life.
She uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches to tailor care to each person. That can mean learning ways to notice thoughts and choose actions that match values, practicing skills to manage intense emotions, or exploring attachment patterns that shape relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be direct and collaborative, with clear goals and small, doable changes. Christen’s background includes work in addiction treatment and program development in Florida. She has led substance use programs and designed clinical training for first responders, gaining experience in both individual therapy and larger program systems.
This experience informs how she organizes treatment plans and sets measurable steps toward recovery. In the therapy room she leans on client-centered principles, meeting people where they are and honoring their pace. For many clients that looks like skill-building for distress tolerance, values-based goal work, and thoughtful reflection on past patterns that still influence daily life.
People seeking help for mood disorders, ADHD, relationship concerns, grief, or stress can expect a straightforward process. Christen works by clarifying what matters most to the client, choosing approaches that match those goals, and tracking progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Christen commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her online practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking committed action toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness to reduce crisis cycling and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Christen works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try strategies, monitor what helps, and adjust the plan so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people balancing busy lives or living far from a clinician. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions and keep momentum on practical skills and coping steps.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English