About Kristina
Kristina Hoeksema, LMSW, offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She focuses on helping clients build confidence, manage difficult emotions, and take small steps toward a more manageable day-to-day life. She approaches work with the belief that each person knows their story best.
She listens for strengths and practical resources clients already have. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple skills that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
With five years of experience as a Michigan licensed clinical social worker, she has worked with people dealing with trauma, depression, compassion fatigue, and relationship strain. She also supports those navigating adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, illness and end-of-life concerns, and separation or divorce issues.
In sessions she helps people sort through overwhelming feelings, improve communication, and regain a sense of direction. She uses straightforward techniques aimed at lowering anxiety, managing anger, and improving self-esteem. Expect a collaborative approach that balances practical steps and emotional support.
Kristina offers services in English and accepts international clients. Her work is adaptable in pace and style to fit different schedules and life demands. The focus is on steady progress and skills that make daily life feel easier.
Approaches and how online therapy fits your life
Kristina uses evidence-based techniques that teach concrete skills people can practice between sessions. One common focus is anxiety management techniques that help lower physical stress and interrupt worried thinking, which can make daily tasks feel more doable. Another focus is trauma-informed support that helps people regain safety in their reactions and build steady coping routines after difficult events.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that match those needs, and adjust when something isn’t helping. Clients and therapist work together to find what feels most useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when typing is easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of support.
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- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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