About Kristin
Dr. Kristin Good is a California psychologist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship concerns, and phobias. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 24 years of professional experience to sessions.
Dr. Good uses a client-centered approach focused on the person’s goals and day-to-day needs. She begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person.
Together they set clear goals and pick practical skills to practice between sessions.
Background and approach
The work often includes learning ways to reduce symptoms, strengthen relationships, and build routines that support sleep, eating, and mood. Her methods draw from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness skills to change unhelpful thinking and reactions. She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and from EMDR to address traumatic memories when appropriate.
Jungian ideas may appear when exploring personal meaning and life patterns. Sessions are framed around real-world problems: coping with life changes, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or career pressures. She helps people navigate identity and gender-related concerns, grief, and issues with intimacy and communication.
The aim is practical change that fits each person’s values and daily life. Dr. Good describes therapy as collaborative.
She helps clients practice new skills, reflect on patterns, and make gradual changes that lead to feeling more capable. Her style is straightforward, supportive, and goal-oriented.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Dr. Good uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, often teaching step-by-step exercises to try between sessions. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills useful in stressful moments. When trauma is central, she may use EMDR-informed methods to help process upsetting memories in a paced way.Finding the best approach is part of the initial work. She collaborates with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on skills training, trauma processing, or exploring deeper life patterns so the plan fits the client's needs.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different situations. Video lets people practice new skills in real time. Phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or when shorter interactions fit a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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