About Cristian
Cristian Iordan is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience. He helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, relationship troubles, or major life transitions. Cristian speaks English and Romanian and works with individuals from varied backgrounds, including international clients.
He draws on practical, action-oriented methods to help people manage strong emotions and repeated patterns. Sessions focus on short-term skills and deeper emotion work, depending on what each person needs.
Background and approach
Cristian describes therapy as active work that can feel hard at times but leads to lasting change. Clients can expect a mix of tools for thinking differently about problems and skills for handling intense feelings in the moment. He uses approaches that teach coping strategies, communication skills, and ways to reconnect with what matters most.
Cristian aims to help people reduce distress and regain a clearer sense of direction. Over the years he has worked in both outpatient and inpatient settings and has supported people facing trauma, grief, addiction concerns, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related problems. He also addresses topics like abandonment, codependency, infidelity, and financial stress when they come up in therapy.
Practical next steps are simple: select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to availability. Therapy sessions may be held by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives.
Approaches that translate well to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It involves learning clear skills and practicing them between sessions to change thinking patterns and daily routines.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication. It is useful for people who experience strong emotional swings or who struggle with repeated behavior patterns that cause problems.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and feel their emotions more clearly and then use that awareness to change how they relate to themselves and others. It can be helpful for relationship pain and for reconnecting with personal values and purpose.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up. Together they choose which methods to try and adjust those methods as work progresses to better fit the client's needs.
Online therapy by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video works well for longer sessions and for visual cues, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat or texting can fit quick check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain regular work on anxiety, stress, relationships, and other concerns while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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