Christine Rodriguez, LCSW

She is currently accepting Couples Counseling and Sex Therapy clients only. Christine Rodriguez focuses on helping people strengthen connection in their relationships, address intimacy concerns, and improve communication patterns. She works with individuals and couples facing conflicts about sex, infidelity, commitment, and everyday relational stress, offering practical tools to rebuild trust, deepen fondness, and enhance emotional closeness.

Her style blends interactive, holistic work with grounded, evidence-based practices. She draws on approaches such as the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, somatic techniques, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify interaction patterns, shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and support emotional regulation. Christine also brings specialized training in sexual health to conversations about sex, kink, non-monogamy, and sexual functioning, helping clients explore desires and boundaries without judgment.

Christine earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Southern California in 2017 and completed the Sexual Health Certificate Program in Sex Therapy and Sex Education at the University of Michigan in 2024. She holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and has over four years of experience working with people on relationship, trauma, LGBT, and intimacy-related concerns. She provides care in English and practices from California, offering targeted support for relationship repair, stress and anxiety, self-esteem, and sexual wellbeing.

Therapeutic Approaches for Relationships and Intimacy Online

Christine brings several proven approaches to online work. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on identifying and reshaping interactional patterns that create distance, helping partners access and respond to underlying emotions to rebuild connection and security. The Gottman Method combines practical communication and conflict tools with research-based interventions to reduce destructive patterns and increase fondness, improving everyday interaction and intimacy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients examine and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety, shame, or relationship conflict, offering skills for emotion regulation and problem solving.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Christine partners with each person or couple to assess needs, goals, and preferences and tailors interventions from these models so therapy aligns with what matters most to the client.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and accessibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, support continuity when in-person visits are difficult, and allow clients to engage in treatment from their preferred setting while working with licensed professionals and therapists trained in relationship and sexual health.