About Christopher
Christopher Tellez helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and struggles with self-esteem. He also supports those navigating LGBT concerns and people working through panic, social anxiety, or isolation. Christopher is based in California and brings 15 years of clinical experience to his work.
He holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW). Christopher uses straightforward, calm conversation to help people name what feels hard right now. Sessions focus on feelings in the body, practical steps that fit daily life, and small experiments to build new patterns.
Background and approach
He listens for each person’s strengths and helps them use those strengths to move forward. His background blends relational and mindfulness-based work. That means attention to how emotions show up between people and gentle practices to reduce reactivity.
He can also support people who want to explore spiritual practices, meditation, or mantra work as part of their healing. People come to Christopher for help with communication problems, guilt and shame, money stress, and issues around sexuality and gender. He also works with dissociation, impulsivity, post-traumatic stress, and seasonal mood shifts.
The focus is practical change rather than labels. Sessions are framed around the goals each person brings. Christopher offers tools from solution-focused and psychodynamic approaches alongside mindfulness and emotionally-focused work.
He emphasizes collaboration, respect, and clear next steps so people leave with something to try between sessions.
Approaches to emotion and change available online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel understood and can explore what matters to them. It is helpful when someone needs a steady, accepting space to sort through feelings and choices.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name deep emotions and patterns in relationships. It can be useful for reducing intense reactivity and improving emotional connection with others.
Mindfulness Therapy offers simple practices to calm the body and notice thoughts without judgment, which often reduces anxiety and helps with stress management.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Christopher will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences, and he will adjust the plan as needed during treatment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to see what helps best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English