About Kristin
Kristin "Krissy" Smith is a licensed independent clinical social worker with over ten years of practice. She offers straightforward, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, parenting strain, or major life changes. Krissy focuses on meeting each person where they are and building from there.
She has provided individual and group therapy across the life span, working with adults who face depression, addiction concerns, relationship strain, sleep problems, and phobias.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on collaboration; she listens first and adapts methods to match the person in front of her. Krissy commonly uses client-centered strategies that emphasize understanding a person's priorities and strengths. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Sessions often include practical exercises, coping tools, and small experiments to test what helps. In a typical session she focuses on clear goals, skill-building, and problem solving. Conversations aim to be direct and compassionate, with steps that can be practiced between meetings.
She also draws on group formats when that fits a person's needs. Krissy works from Alabama and conducts sessions in English. People who want support with caregiving stress, workplace struggles, social anxiety, or transitions may find her approach useful.
She encourages small, steady changes rather than quick fixes.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person first. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns back, and helps identify priorities and strengths. This approach is useful for people who want time to tell their story and set their own goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Sessions often include short exercises, thought records, and workable steps to practice between meetings. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, phobias, sleep problems, and mood changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide whether client-centered work, CBT, or a mix best fits the goals and day-to-day needs. That collaboration continues as progress is reviewed and plans are adjusted.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video suits conversations that benefit from seeing facial cues, while phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep work moving forward between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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