Christen Thompson, LMHC

Christen Thompson, LMHC, draws on a long personal and professional recovery journey to guide other people toward steadier days. She brings nine years of formal counseling experience and many earlier years working directly in addictions care. Her focus includes addiction, trauma, mood challenges, anxiety, and aging and geriatric issues among other life stresses.

Christen uses practical, person-focused methods in sessions. She listens first and helps people notice what matters most to them. Then she offers tools from approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and attachment-informed work. The aim is to build clearer choices and better coping skills for day-to-day life.

Her background includes years on the front lines in addiction treatment and designing clinical programs for first responders. That hands-on experience shaped how she organizes care and supports people through change. She has also worked with people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, grief, and identity questions.

Christen’s style is straightforward and human. She draws on life experience as well as clinical practice to help people handle stress, rebuild routines, and manage mood swings or substance concerns. Sessions move at a realistic pace and focus on what a person can use between appointments.

People interested in working on issues like impulse control, sleep problems, relationship patterns, or aging-related transitions can expect an approach that mixes practical skills with values-based exploration. Christen encourages steady progress and ongoing self-awareness as part of recovery and growth.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Christen draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify what they value and take small, doable steps toward those goals. ACT focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while still moving in a chosen direction, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationship patterns shape current reactions. That work helps people understand clinginess, avoidance, trust issues, and intimacy-related struggles so they can try new ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christen collaborates with each person to pick techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She will try different strategies and adjust them based on what helps most in everyday life.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, or allow a quicker check-in between appointments. It also lets people use tools learned in sessions directly in their own routines, which can support steady progress.