About Christina
Dr. Christina Gonzalez uses a practical, people-centered approach to help individuals navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Florida.
She speaks English and Spanish and draws on two decades of experience in clinical and community settings. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens closely to each person's story and helps set realistic goals for change. Therapy is meant to be a collaborative process where the client leads the pace. Dr.
Gonzalez blends several methods to match what each person needs. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-based work to address relationship patterns. Mindfulness techniques are used to build calm and present-moment awareness.
She has worked across different systems and settings, including community mental health and addiction services. That background informs practical ways to handle things like grief, parenting strain, work stress, and challenges tied to immigration or cultural transition. Her experience also includes helping people manage burnout and compassion fatigue.
When starting, she helps people identify immediate priorities and small, doable steps forward. Sessions can include talk, skill practice, and exercises to try at home. Dr.
Gonzalez aims to help clients feel more capable of managing emotions, relationships, and life transitions.
Approaches for online healing and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation and meaning matter.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and managing stress through skill practice and paced behavioral changes.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and reactions. It can help people understand recurring trust, abandonment, or closeness issues and try new ways of relating.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they choose or combine methods and adjust as progress is made, keeping sessions collaborative and goal-focused.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow near face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quick check-in, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping momentum toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Arizona, Washington
- Languages
- English, Spanish