About Christian
Christian Garcia Maravillas is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses a respectful, compassionate approach. He aims to create a space where people can talk honestly about anxiety, stress, and difficult life events. Christian keeps language simple and practical so parents and busy adults can follow along.
He draws on client-centered methods to focus sessions on a person's goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps him work with patterns of thought and behavior that keep anxiety or anger active.
Background and approach
He also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when people need tools for managing intense emotions and building distress tolerance. Christian has 11 years of professional experience in California. That background includes helping people with trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and problems with self-esteem.
He also supports work on phobias, social anxiety, guilt, shame, and feelings of isolation. Sessions can address mood challenges such as Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder and post-traumatic stress by combining practical skill-building with reflective talk. Christian adapts pacing and focus to each person's needs and comfort level.
He aims to help people find clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more effective ways of handling daily stress. He meets with people in English and Spanish and offers a mix of contact styles so therapy can fit into a busy life. Christian encourages small, steady steps and keeps plans straightforward so progress is visible and manageable.
How Christian’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's priorities and tailoring sessions to their goals. This approach helps people feel heard and keeps the work aligned with what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is about identifying thought and behavior patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood and practicing concrete alternatives. It works well for stress, phobias, and social anxiety by giving step-by-step tasks and skills to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These tools can be useful when anger or overwhelm gets in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try different methods, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which skills and strategies fit the situation.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging make therapy easier to fit into work, school, and family schedules. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text let people check in between sessions or use shorter updates. These options increase flexibility and make steady progress more achievable for busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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