About Cristina
Cristina Perez is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 14 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and struggles with self-esteem. Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
She listens to the specific problem first, then works with each person to set clear goals. Sessions often focus on improving daily routines, managing strong feelings like anger, and handling career or parenting strain.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating trauma and abuse and issues related to LGBT and family life. Cristina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She uses Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events continue to cause distress, helping people reduce intense reactions and build coping skills.
These methods are applied in simple, concrete ways during sessions. Her approach is collaborative and practical. Cristina offers tools for communication, strategies to lower social anxiety, and steps to manage caregiver stress.
She aims for clear skills people can practice between appointments. Clients can expect a compassionate, goal-oriented partnership. Cristina emphasizes steady progress through small, achievable changes.
Her work centers on helping people regain balance and function better in daily life.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps when past events keep causing strong emotions or flashbacks. In simple steps, it supports people in understanding how those events affect current reactions and then builds coping strategies to reduce distress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and mood problems because it creates clear exercises and short-term goals people can try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Cristina will discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences with each person and adjust methods as needed. The plan can include a mix of CBT tools and trauma work depending on what helps most.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls are good for full sessions with visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief coaching. These options give flexibility so people can use therapy in ways that match their routine and energy levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
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- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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