Dr. Maureen Christensen, LMFT
Arizona · 34 years in practice
Dr. Maureen Christensen uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy as a core way to help people who are stuck in painful relationship or personal patterns.
License and registration
- LMFT, Arizona
- LMFT-10272 · expires April 2026
- LMFT, Nevada
- 0476 · expires January 2028
- NPI
- 1265918189 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 34
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Maureen
Dr. Maureen Christensen uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy as a core way to help people who are stuck in painful relationship or personal patterns. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 34 years of experience.
Her style is direct and warm, aimed at making steady progress rather than long delays. She works with a wide range of struggles including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, trauma and anger. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family strain, intimacy concerns, communication problems and self-esteem issues.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include abandonment, codependency, blended family issues, infidelity, and end-of-life or hospice-related counseling. Her approach blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy with client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means sessions look at emotions and attachment needs, help reframe unhelpful thoughts, and center the client’s goals and values.
She also uses ideas from the Gottman Method for relationship work and mindfulness to help with everyday coping. Dr. Christensen trained in health and human services and marriage and family therapy, and she holds a PhD and a masters degree.
She brings decades of clinical experience and practical tools that clients can continue to use after therapy ends. Sessions focus on learning skills, shifting patterns, and repairing what matters most. She offers sessions in English and works with individuals and couples across concerns such as life transitions, cancer-related counseling, body image, dependent or avoidant personality patterns, forgiveness work, and commitment issues.
Her Nevada practice emphasizes clear steps and collaborative planning.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Maureen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Approaches Maureen names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
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Online support
Emotion and Skills Work Adapted to Online Care
Dr. Christensen combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people shift patterns and build skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying core emotions and attachment needs, which can help with relationship distance, intimacy-related issues, and recurring conflicts. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and the client’s own priorities, helping people feel heard and steer sessions toward their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and reframe negative thoughts and teaches practical skills to change behavior and mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they decide whether emotion-focused work, CBT skill-building, or a mix of methods best fits the problem at hand, and the plan can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work through emotional material while seeing facial cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, practicing skills between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and grief. Relationship and intimacy issues, family conflict, communication problems, and self-esteem are also common focuses.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is direct but supportive, blending Emotionally-Focused Therapy, client-centered listening, CBT, Gottman methods and mindfulness. Sessions emphasize emotion work, practical skill building, and clearer communication.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 34 years of experience working in counseling settings. That background includes work with individuals and couples across many relationship and life challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with NV LMFT and AZ LMFT credentials and practices in Nevada.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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