Christopher Dennison, LMFT
Compassionate, practical help for everyday struggles
About Christopher
Christopher Dennison is a licensed marriage and family therapist with eight years of clinical experience based in Tennessee. He works with people facing depression, relationship strain, family problems, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, and career concerns.
Background and approach
Christopher aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can talk through what feels hard right now. He uses practical, grounded methods drawn from attachment work and acceptance-based ideas.
Sessions are warm and direct, with an emphasis on helping clients name what matters and take small steps that match their values. Christopher often focuses on attachment patterns and mood issues to help people understand how past relationships affect current behavior.
Parents who feel overwhelmed by caregiving or family conflict will find brief, actionable strategies to try between sessions. For people wrestling with depression or trauma, he balances emotional support with exercises that build coping skills.
Career and work environment concerns are approached with problem-solving and attention to how stress affects daily life. Christopher describes his style as caring but forthright, guiding conversations so people leave with clear next steps.
He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused techniques where appropriate. Those methods are adapted to each person’s situation rather than applied the same way to everyone.
If someone wants to begin, he asks for a short intake so sessions can start with a focused plan. The intention is steady progress in manageable steps, not quick fixes.
How attachment and acceptance work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and practice small actions that matter to them. It focuses on willingness to feel difficult emotions and on building behaviors that move a person toward what they care about. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonding patterns shape current relationships and helps people change repeated interaction patterns that cause pain or distance. Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to identify and shift core emotions that drive conflict and disconnection in relationships, creating new ways to connect and respond.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist and client will talk about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether to emphasize ACT skills, attachment work, or emotionally-focused interventions and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and deeper emotional work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing brief support between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into evenings, work breaks, or busy family routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English