About Cristina
Cristina Lopez-Mera is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She practices in Florida and speaks English and Spanish. Cristina works with adults on a range of problems including depression, relationship issues, addiction concerns, and phobias.
Clients can expect straightforward, person-focused sessions where the conversation leads the way. She uses practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try small changes.
Background and approach
Sessions also make room for values and meaning so people can reconnect with purpose and direction. Cristina draws on motivational techniques to support readiness for change and on narrative ideas to help people reframe painful stories. She often teaches simple relaxation and grounding practices for anxiety and overwhelm.
Her approach mixes short-term problem solving with attention to deeper life questions when clients want that work. People coming for help with grief, family problems, identity concerns, or career stress find concrete strategies and collaborative planning. She also addresses aging and geriatric concerns, immigration and multicultural issues, and money or financial stress as part of life transitions.
Cristina aims to keep sessions clear, respectful, and focused on what each person wants to accomplish. Therapy is offered in English and Spanish. Practical steps and gradual progress are emphasized over quick fixes, with tools that can be used between sessions to manage symptoms and build toward longer-term goals.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment, helping people feel heard while they talk through worries or life choices. It can be useful for building trust and exploring emotions in a straightforward way.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and gives practical steps to change patterns that keep problems going. It suits concerns like anxiety, phobias, mood issues, and habits that people want to shift.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and relaxation practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress. These skills are often used between sessions to handle moments of overwhelm.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting tactics as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into daily life. Video works well for in-depth conversations and exercises that use body-based or visual cues. Phone sessions can be an option when bandwidth is low or a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, family, or mobility needs while still getting regular therapeutic support.
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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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