Cristina Lopez-Mera, LMHC

Cristina Lopez-Mera is a licensed mental health counselor with two decades of experience helping people navigate life’s hard moments. She practices in Florida and connects with clients in English and Spanish. Cristina brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on practical skills people can use between meetings.

She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Mindfulness skills are part of her toolbox for easing anxiety and teaching simple relaxation techniques. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help building momentum toward change.

Cristina’s work covers stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, anger, self-esteem, relationship strain, career concerns, and coping with life changes. She also pays attention to family of origin issues, multicultural concerns, immigration-related stress, and aging and geriatric matters when those come up. Sessions are practical and goal-focused while still allowing room to talk about meaning and values.

Her approach is collaborative. Cristina helps people set short-term steps and longer-term goals, and she checks in about what is working. She also offers relaxation and mindfulness practices and can discuss how those fit into daily routines.

People choose sessions in English or Spanish and can work with her through several online formats. Cristina’s profile notes a flexible, steady way of working that aims to make change feel doable over time.

How Cristina Uses Talk Therapy and Skills Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and working at the client’s pace. The therapist offers steady, nonjudgmental attention and helps people identify what matters to them and what they want to change.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. In session this often means setting clear goals, trying specific behavior experiments, and practicing new thinking strategies between meetings.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Cristina discusses options and tailors methods to each person’s goals, needs, and preferences so therapy feels like a shared plan rather than a one-size-fits-all program.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when less bandwidth is needed, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing notes between meetings. These options add flexibility for scheduling and for using the kind of contact that best supports progress.