Cristina Mena
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)
As a therapist with a focus on trauma and perinatal mental health, my role is to guide you to make appropriate changes toward balanced mental health.
Past trauma can leave us clinging on to old patterns, and can make it difficult to connect with others as well as with a new child. Bringing up these traumas can be scary, but there are many evidence-based techniques that can help prepare you for processing the past in a safer manner, and can help you be more present in the here and now. As a therapist with a focus on trauma and perinatal mental health, my role is to nurture, guide, educate, and challenge you to make appropriate changes towards balanced mental health. I aim to provide you with the resources and education to better understand what is happening internally, and then be able to guide you towards healthier decisions.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
- Anxiety
- Autism
- Burnout
- Conflict Resolution
- Divorce
- End of Life
- Family Caregiving Stress
- Immigration/Acculturation
- Infertility
- Intimacy Concerns
- Life Transitions
- Parenting Concerns
- Postpartum Depression
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Pregnancy/Loss of Pregnancy
- Racial/Cultural Oppression or Trauma
- Relationship(s) with Parents/Children/Family
- Relationship(s) with Partner/Husband/Wife
- Trauma
- Women's Issues
- Work/Life Balance
Age groups
- Young adults (18-30)
- Adults (31-64)
Special groups
- Active duty military
- Adult children of alcoholics
- Athletes
- Immigrants
- Neurodivergent people
- People in the foster care system
- People of color
- People who identify as gay
- People who identify as lesbian
- People who identify as non-binary
- People who identify as queer
- People with disabilities
- People with HIV or AIDS
- Professional Healthcare Providers
- Transgender
- Veterans
Treatment specialties
Therapeutic modalities
- Couples Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Individual Therapy
Treatments
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Location 1 of 3
Payment options
Insurance
In-network coverage provided for the following insurance companies
- Aetna – Florida
- Ambetter – Florida
- AvMed – Florida
- Blue Cross Blue Shield – Florida
- Cigna – Florida
- ComPsych – Florida
- Magellan – Florida
- Medicaid – Florida
- Military insurance (e.g., TRICARE) – Florida
- Optum – Florida
- Oscar – Florida
- United Health Care – Florida
- Out-of-pocket
- In-network insurance
Credentials
Licenses
MH
16198, Florida