About Cristina
Cristina Lopez-Mera is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She works in Florida and offers therapy in both English and Spanish. Cristina helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns using straightforward, hands-on methods.
She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps. Sessions often include mindful exercises and strategies to manage overwhelming thoughts. She also uses talk-based methods that help clients look at patterns and make small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Cristina has worked across a wide range of life issues, including addiction, grief, self-esteem, anger, and coping with big life changes. She also supports people facing multicultural or immigration-related stress and those dealing with aging and geriatric concerns. Her background includes helping with family of origin issues, codependency, and financial stressors.
In the room she blends Client-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral techniques with mindfulness and motivational interviewing. That means sessions are collaborative and goal-focused, with attention to how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She adapts the pace to what each person needs and values.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate. Cristina aims to help people set short-term goals and work toward longer-term change. She invites clients to use practical tools between sessions and to track progress as they go.
Approaches and how online sessions help
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's lead. The therapist creates space for people to speak about what matters most and helps them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cristina will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. The process is collaborative, with regular check-ins so the plan can change if something is not working.
Online formats give practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people have a full conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for ongoing support, quick check-ins, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use the format that best fits daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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