About Maureen
Dr. Maureen Christensen uses straightforward, practical therapy to help people make changes in their lives. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 34 years of experience and works from a client-centered perspective.
Her style is direct and supportive, focused on helping people reduce anxiety and manage stress with workable tools. She often combines cognitive behavioral techniques with emotion-focused work. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, test them, and try new behaviors while also addressing emotional patterns that affect relationships.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness strategies to reduce reactivity and increase calm in day-to-day life. Dr. Christensen has a background that spans health, nursing, and family therapy.
Her formal education includes a PhD in Health and Human Services, a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a bachelor’s degree in Nursing. Those training pathways shape a practical approach to coping with problems such as anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. She helps people with relationship and intimacy issues, family stresses, communication problems, and life transitions like separation or loss.
She also works with concerns such as codependency, body image, and the emotional impact of serious illness. Sessions aim to give clients tools they can keep using after therapy ends. People can expect clear guidance, hands-on strategies, and collaborative planning to meet their goals.
Approach-driven online therapy for anxiety and relationships
Dr. Christensen often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice emotional patterns in relationships and learn new ways to connect and respond to one another.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with clients to match methods to their goals, personality, and daily demands. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions or use written check-ins when that better fits a schedule. These options make it easier to keep consistent momentum toward managing anxiety and improving relationships.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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