About Christi
Christi Fields is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and relationship and family problems. She works with clients on issues like trauma and abuse, grief, anger, self-esteem, career changes, bipolar concerns, and ADHD. Christi practices from New Mexico and offers services in English.
Her style is down-to-earth and nonjudgmental. She emphasizes client choice and practical steps rather than perfection.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is useful for each person and on small, manageable changes that add up over time. Christi blends several approaches in brief, goal-oriented work. She uses client-centered conversations to clarify a person’s priorities.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify patterns of thinking and try out different behaviors. Solution-focused tools bring attention to strengths and workable next steps. In practice she often includes parenting psychoeducation and clinical case management when helpful.
Christi has experience with court-related, criminal justice, and child welfare contexts and with challenges such as domestic violence, homelessness, and divorce or separation. She applies a person-in-environment perspective to see problems in the context of daily life and relationships. Clients can expect practical planning, coaching-style support, and collaborative problem solving.
Christi aims to help people find strategies that fit their life, values, and schedule so they can move toward the outcomes they hope for.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Christi often uses client-centered therapy to keep the conversation focused on each person's values and goals. This means the therapist listens closely, reflects what matters to the client, and follows their lead to set priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try out new behaviors; it can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking problems into manageable parts.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with the client to match methods to the issue, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative decision may change over time as goals shift or as someone sees what tools feel most useful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer a flexible way to get support between longer sessions or during a quick break at work. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic techniques you would find in office-based care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico, California
- Languages
- English