About Kristi
Kristi Heritage is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, substance use, and related concerns. She practices from Missouri and brings six years of clinical experience to sessions. Her style is warm and interactive.
She treats people with respect and avoids stigmatizing labels. Conversations are collaborative and focused on the issues a person brings, such as depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, or struggles with addiction.
Background and approach
Kristi uses a mix of therapeutic approaches that she adapts to each person. She draws on client-centered work to build a supportive space, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change. She also uses mindfulness practices and EMDR when appropriate.
In practice she aims to tailor sessions and treatment plans to what each person needs. That can mean short-term skills work for coping and anxiety, or deeper trauma-focused work for people affected by abuse or crisis. She also addresses practical life problems like career stress, caregiver strain, blended family challenges, and chronic illness concerns.
Kristi offers several communication formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her schedule can be flexible and she encourages booking a live session so there is time for focused conversation. If someone needs a different time, she asks them to reach out so they can try to find a workable slot.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, understanding space where the person leads the conversation and the therapist reflects and supports. It can help with feeling heard, building self-worth, and working through relationship and identity concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors that fuel anxiety, depression, or stress. Sessions often include simple exercises and practice between meetings to build new habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. It can be useful for people who need tools for emotional regulation and better communication.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then adjust methods over time in collaboration with the client.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging lets people pick what fits their routine. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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