About Kristen
Kristen Smith is a licensed mental health counselor with 27 years of experience in Florida. She centers her work on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more able to handle daily life. Kristen speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel like a focused conversation where clients set the pace and goals.
She helps people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with sleep and eating. She also supports those dealing with trauma, intimacy-related issues, addictions, grieving, and career concerns.
Background and approach
Kristen works with concerns tied to self-esteem, anger, ADHD, and the strain of caregiving. Her background includes long-term clinical work with adults facing relationship struggles, family of origin issues, attachment difficulties, and transitions such as divorce or relocation. She draws on cognitive and behavioral tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small, concrete behavior changes.
Kristen also uses client-centered ways of working to listen deeply and build on each person's strengths. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are available for people who need help with emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interactions with others. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented.
Kristen will help clients choose which strategies to try and will adjust the plan as progress is made. Her style is steady, respectful, and practical, aimed at helping people find clearer ways forward.
Approaches you can try in online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on each person's strengths. The therapist offers steady support and follows the client's lead to set goals and next steps, which helps when people feel unsure where to begin.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress-related problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better relationships. These tools can be useful for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing impulsive reactions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for deeper conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or fit therapy into a busy day. These options offer flexibility so therapy can work around work, family, and travel commitments rather than adding another barrier.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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