About Kristin
Kristin Kenny is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. She works with adults and adolescents on problems like anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, and mood disorders. She focuses on helping people find practical coping skills and clearer ways to think about hard situations.
Her style centers on guiding self-exploration while teaching tools that can be used outside sessions. Kristin uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on client-centered principles to keep the work focused on each person's values and goals. Kristin brings dialectical behavior therapy skills into treatment when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. She combines these with attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
The mix is tailored to the problem at hand, whether that is grief, relationship conflict, or challenges at school or work. Clients can expect straightforward practical work and moments of reflection. Kristin aims to help people develop new perspectives and useful coping strategies.
She supports exploring long-held beliefs and building skills for daily life. Her background includes a decade of practice with diverse cultural backgrounds and a range of concerns such as addiction, bipolar disorder, eating and intimacy-related issues, ADHD, parenting stress, and grief. She works in English and sees clients located in Texas.
How Kristin’s Approaches Work Online
Kristin uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. CBT is practical and often focuses on specific skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. She also uses client-centered therapy to keep the sessions focused on the person’s priorities and pace, offering empathetic listening and reflection to help people clarify goals and values.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Kristin will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit each person’s needs. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made based on what helps the client make progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or low-bandwidth situations. Chat and messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping a steady course of work on the issues that matter.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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