About Christiane
Christiane Soehnlein is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of clinical experience who helps people facing anxiety and related challenges. She works with people struggling with stress, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and intimacy-related concerns. She speaks English and German and aims to make first steps feel manageable.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Conversations and care plans are shaped around each person's history, personality, and goals rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical tools and clearer ways to handle overwhelming feelings and tense interactions. Christiane pays attention to how past experiences show up in current patterns. She helps people recognize unhelpful habits such as control issues, codependency, or avoidance, and practices small manageable changes that can shift daily life.
Topics she commonly addresses include abandonment fears, communication problems, jealousy, and challenges around intimacy. She also supports people facing larger life shifts such as divorce, midlife transitions, postpartum depression, or cancer-related stress. Work can include building coping strategies, improving emotional expression, and strengthening decision making.
The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. Therapy with her is a cooperative process. People are invited to set the pace and try techniques between sessions.
Her aim is to help clients feel more able to manage emotions, reconnect in relationships, and find clearer direction in life.
How evidence-based techniques adapt online
Christiane uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that translate well to remote formats. One common approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and low mood; this involves practicing new responses and testing them between sessions. Another approach emphasizes skills for improving relationships and emotional connection by working on communication habits, boundaries, and ways to express needs more clearly.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients can expect a mix of conversation, skills practice, and small between-session tasks aimed at steady change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and learning new skills, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and messaging or live chat can support quick reflections or day-to-day coaching between sessions. These options help people access care with more flexibility and fewer scheduling barriers.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, German
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