About Christina
Christina Ortiz-Marquez helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, trauma, and issues with self-esteem. She brings 17 years of clinical experience and works from Colorado as an LPC. Her style aims to make therapy direct and useful so people can get practical relief and clearer direction.
She focuses on understanding each person's story and strengths before suggesting ways forward. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, practicing communication, and looking at patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Christina uses plain language and step-by-step techniques so changes feel doable. Her background includes long-term work with first responders and survivors of sexual assault and abuse. That experience informs how she helps people rebuild resilience and safety after upsetting events.
She also addresses addiction, anger, eating and sleeping struggles, and compassion fatigue. Christina draws on several therapy approaches to match a person's needs. That can mean teaching mindfulness and distress-tolerance skills, working on thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety alive, or exploring attachment and relationship patterns.
She aims for collaboration and practical tools rather than jargon. People who come for help leave with clearer communication habits, new ways to manage strong emotions, and plans for small, steady change. Christina frames therapy as a partnership to solve present problems and build skills that last.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then taking small steps toward what matters. It can help with anxiety, stress, and moving through life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep a problem going and teaches practical strategies to change them, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns show up now and helps people improve communication and closeness in important relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Christina will discuss options and pick techniques that match a person's needs, goals, and comfort level. She treats therapy as a collaboration where feedback guides adjustments to methods and pace.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and teaching new skills, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth needs, and messaging or live chat supports short updates or timely skill practice. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep progress steady over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English