About Christina
Christina Benboudiaf helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, relationship strains, and struggles with self-esteem. She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with five years of clinical experience. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things.
She uses mindfulness to help people slow down and notice what they are feeling. She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills for managing intense emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Christina emphasizes a nonjudgmental, authentic style. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and offers guidance and support tailored to individual goals.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. Her background includes work with survivors of abuse, people impacted by human trafficking, and those with problematic substance use. She also has experience supporting people who identify as LGBT and those facing mood and anxiety disorders.
Therapy with Christina can include short-term coping strategies or longer work on life direction and purpose. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Starting is a simple process of completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening without judgment and helping people name what matters to them. This approach supports people who need a steady, accepting space to talk through difficult emotions and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges where concrete changes in thinking can reduce distress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. People who feel overwhelmed by intense feelings often find DBT strategies helpful between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your concerns, discuss goals, and suggest methods that match your needs and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new priorities arise.
Online therapy makes it possible to use these methods across different formats. Video calls allow visual connection and deeper conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different ways of working until you find what helps.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English