- Bilingual English Spanish
- 20 years experience
- Practical coping skills
About Cristina
Cristina Lopez-Mera is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She has worked across a wide age range and brings a steady, experienced presence to sessions. Cristina speaks English and Spanish and is based in Florida.
Cristina uses straightforward methods to help people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She also supports clients facing relationship strain, career concerns, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Her work includes attention to multicultural concerns, immigration-related stress, and issues that arise from family history.
Her approach blends client-centered conversations with practical techniques. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. She also offers mindfulness tools for relaxation and grounding, and she uses Motivational Interviewing to support people working through behavior change.
Cristina has additional focus on topics like codependency, divorce and separation, infidelity, hoarding, and financial worries. She also addresses aging and geriatric concerns, mood disorders, phobias, and questions of life purpose and forgiveness. Sessions are aimed at both short-term goals and longer-term healing.
Clients can expect calm, plain-spoken guidance and practical skills to try between sessions. Cristina combines talking, problem-solving, and simple exercises so people can practice new ways of coping outside of therapy. Her background includes being a certified yoga instructor, which informs some of the relaxation techniques she offers.
Cristina uses straightforward methods to help people struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She also supports clients facing relationship strain, career concerns, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and big life changes. Her work includes attention to multicultural concerns, immigration-related stress, and issues that arise from family history.
Her approach blends client-centered conversations with practical techniques. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. She also offers mindfulness tools for relaxation and grounding, and she uses Motivational Interviewing to support people working through behavior change.
Cristina has additional focus on topics like codependency, divorce and separation, infidelity, hoarding, and financial worries. She also addresses aging and geriatric concerns, mood disorders, phobias, and questions of life purpose and forgiveness. Sessions are aimed at both short-term goals and longer-term healing.
Clients can expect calm, plain-spoken guidance and practical skills to try between sessions. Cristina combines talking, problem-solving, and simple exercises so people can practice new ways of coping outside of therapy. Her background includes being a certified yoga instructor, which informs some of the relaxation techniques she offers.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot patterns of thought that make problems worse. It pairs clear exercises and homework with conversations to shift thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood issues.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, offering empathy and reflection so the person can find their own solutions to relationship and life concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Cristina will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, values, and day-to-day needs. That collaborative process often means trying things and adjusting as progress is made.
Confirm the session formats available before booking as they are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow for simpler check-ins when a full in-person visit is difficult. It can also make it easier to use mindfulness exercises and CBT worksheets during or between sessions without rearranging your schedule.
Frequently asked questions
What issues does Cristina commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship strain, career concerns, grief, anger, self-esteem and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, combining client-centered conversation with skills-based techniques like CBT and mindfulness.
What kind of clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience and has worked with a wide age range of clients during her career.
What credentials and location are listed for Cristina?
She is an MA LMHC and practices in Florida as an LMHC.
Are sessions available in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Cristina?
Click the continue button on this profile, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.