Joseph Christensen

Joseph Christensen is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California, holding LMFT license number 107509 and bringing 24 years of professional experience to his work. He holds a Master of Addiction Counseling and has overseen five mental health and addictions treatment programs in addition to his clinical practice.

His professional background spans residential treatment, in-patient psychiatric hospitalization in both the United States and the United Kingdom, school-based services, military settings, forensic work, and community-based counseling. He also has extensive experience in early brain development consulting, assessment and care related to closed head and traumatic brain injury, and developmental counseling across the lifespan.

Joseph provides counseling for couples, families, life-stage transitions, and identity issues across the human lifespan. He has taught university-level courses including Human Development, Child Development, Attraction and Romantic Love, Pediatric Neuropsychology, Abnormal Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, and Death and Dying.

His therapeutic style is client-centered, empathetic, non-judgmental, and solution-focused, working in alignment with each person’s priorities and goals. Clients set the direction and decide when they have reached a level of satisfaction to conclude therapy. He accepts brief, intermediate, or longer-term depth work and looks forward to meeting new clients.