Joseph Christensen , LMFT

Joseph Christensen is a licensed therapist practicing in California with 24 years of experience in mental health and addictions work. He holds the credential LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and brings a wide-ranging background that spans residential treatment, inpatient psychiatric settings in the United States and the United Kingdom, school-based programs, military and forensic work, and community counseling. He has also overseen multiple mental health and addictions treatment programs and consulted on early brain development and traumatic brain injury issues.

His experience includes developmental counseling, couples and family work, and life-stage counseling that addresses identity across the lifespan. He has taught university coursework in human development, child development, attraction and romantic love, pediatric neuropsychology, abnormal psychology, introduction to psychology, and death and dying, which informs his understanding of human growth and relationships. His clinical interests cover a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, family and parenting challenges, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, sleep problems, bipolar and depressive disorders, and ADHD.

Joseph’s practice emphasizes a client-centered, empathetic, non-judgmental, and solution-focused stance that aligns treatment with each person’s priorities and goals. Clients guide the direction of therapy and determine when they feel satisfied with their progress. He offers flexibility for brief, intermediate, or longer-term work and approaches each collaboration with respect for the client’s needs and pace.