- 25 years experience
- English and Spanish
- Relationship focus
About Christian
Christian Maciel is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people who are carrying stress, anxiety, low self esteem, depression, and the fallout of trauma and abuse. He speaks English and Spanish and practices in California.
Christian builds therapy around each person's story. Sessions are straightforward and goal-focused. He listens for patterns in relationships and behavior and helps clients try new ways of coping. The aim is clearer decision making and steadier emotion day to day.
He often works with issues tied to attachment and abandonment, communication problems, and codependency. Other areas he addresses include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and recovery from domestic violence or divorce. He also helps people manage guilt, shame, emptiness, and commitment worries.
Christian uses a mix of practical methods from approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. He also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for emotion regulation and tolerating distress.
In sessions he focuses on what can be done now - skills, perspective shifts, and daily habits that reduce reactivity. People who value direct guidance and clear tools for improving relationships and self worth tend to find this helpful. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Christian builds therapy around each person's story. Sessions are straightforward and goal-focused. He listens for patterns in relationships and behavior and helps clients try new ways of coping. The aim is clearer decision making and steadier emotion day to day.
He often works with issues tied to attachment and abandonment, communication problems, and codependency. Other areas he addresses include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and recovery from domestic violence or divorce. He also helps people manage guilt, shame, emptiness, and commitment worries.
Christian uses a mix of practical methods from approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. He also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for emotion regulation and tolerating distress.
In sessions he focuses on what can be done now - skills, perspective shifts, and daily habits that reduce reactivity. People who value direct guidance and clear tools for improving relationships and self worth tend to find this helpful. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.