Christina Figueroa, LCSW

Christina Figueroa is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on practical steps that fit into everyday life. Christina encourages clients to use their own strengths to make lasting change. She works with concerns such as depression, attention deficit challenges, eating and body-image issues, grief, anger, bipolar mood concerns, and relationship struggles. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to each person and to build straightforward skills for coping. Christina values small, measurable steps that add up over time. Her style blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas with mindfulness and solution-focused work. That means clients can expect some skills practice, attention to thoughts and behaviors, and brief goal-focused conversations. Trauma-focused approaches are also part of how she frames recovery when past events are getting in the way. Christina frames therapy as a collaborative process. She listens for what a person already does well and uses those strengths to address problems. Progress is paced to each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. People looking to start are invited to consider what they want to change and to be open to trying new strategies during sessions. Christina aims for clear, practical tools that help with day-to-day challenges and with rebuilding confidence over time.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Christina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness techniques. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence so people can try different behaviors and feel better. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that help when emotions feel overwhelming.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These approaches are described in plain terms during sessions and include practice tasks clients can try between meetings. The therapist and client decide together which approach to emphasize based on the person’s goals and what feels most useful.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Christina will listen to a person’s story, review goals, and suggest methods to try. The decision about which tools to use is collaborative and can change as progress is made.

Confirm the exact session options before booking since formats are not specified in this biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time. Licensed professionals can help clients shape sessions so they match personal schedules and everyday demands.