About Christina
Christina "Chris" Sanchez is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with eight years of clinical experience. Chris focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, and helping people adjust to life changes. The tone in sessions is calm and practical, aimed at making conversations feel straightforward and useful for day-to-day life.
Chris helps clients talk through worries, low confidence, and problems that come from work or home life. Sessions cover coping skills, communication strategies, and ways to rebuild motivation.
Background and approach
Topics also include body image, chronic illness and pain, and social anxiety when these affect daily functioning. Clients can expect a supportive, nonjudgmental space to name what feels hard. Chris emphasizes clear goals and small, manageable steps toward those goals.
The approach is collaborative - clients and therapist decide what to try together. Chris also addresses issues like guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose and sexuality when they come up alongside anxiety or stress. Practical tools often mix with conversational reflection to help people act differently between sessions.
Work with Chris tends to focus on real-world changes – improving communication at work, reducing daily worry, or finding routines that ease chronic pain. The process is paced to match each person’s needs and comfort, with an emphasis on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that fit online work
Chris draws on straightforward, evidence-based techniques that translate well to remote sessions. One common approach uses practical coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress; this focuses on small, do-able actions and routines people can practice between sessions. Another approach centers on improving communication and problem-solving for relationship and workplace stresses; this involves rehearsing conversations, setting boundaries, and learning clearer ways to express needs. A third emphasis is on managing chronic pain and illness through pacing, activity planning, and techniques to reduce the daily impact of symptoms.Finding the right style is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose which techniques to try based on current goals, comfort level, and how they respond. Adjustments are made as progress is checked and priorities shift, so treatment stays relevant to what matters most to the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and practice new communication skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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