Christen Thompson

Christen Thompson is an LMHC based in Florida who focuses on helping people move forward from addiction and regain balance in their lives. She brings nine years of professional counseling experience and a long personal recovery journey that informs her approach. Christen centers care on practical steps and honest conversation to support change and healing.

She emphasizes thoughtful, down-to-earth work rather than jargon. Sessions typically look at patterns that keep someone stuck and identify small, manageable changes to try between meetings. Christen uses methods that encourage self-awareness, clarify values, and build everyday coping skills for stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and relationship strain.

Her background includes years working in addiction services and leading a substance abuse intensive outpatient program. That experience shaped how she structures group and individual work, and how she supports people through recovery and relapse prevention. Christen also has experience developing clinical curriculum and supervising care in service settings.

Clients commonly bring concerns such as substance use, depression, anxiety, ADHD, grief, and career stress. She also addresses intimacy, body image, caregiving strain, and complications from chronic illness. Christen helps people explore their goals and create realistic plans to get closer to them.

Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She asks practical questions, listens for strengths, and offers techniques drawn from several evidence-based approaches. Prospective clients should use the Start Therapy button to begin the match process and schedule a first session.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking action toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and can help with intimacy, trust, and attachment issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christen will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She often mixes helpful tools from different approaches to meet real-world needs and adjusts the plan as therapy progresses.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, cut travel time, and let someone check in more often during stressful periods. It can also allow for shorter check-ins, phone-only conversations when bandwidth is limited, or scheduled sessions that fit around work or caregiving responsibilities. Talk with the therapist during the match process about which arrangements will work best.