About Kristina
Kristina Kerr is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience. She listens without judgment and centers sessions on each person's needs. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and relationship strains.
She trained in psychology and counseling and has worked across clinical settings for two decades. That experience shapes a calm, practical style. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what changes a person wants to make.
Background and approach
Kristina uses client-centered work to make people feel heard. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage emotions. Mindfulness and existential ideas are used when they fit a person's goals.
In typical sessions she and the client set clear goals, practice skills between meetings, and track small changes over time. She supports work on stress, sleep, body image, grief, infertility-related concerns, and many daily life challenges. She also helps people facing issues with substance use, eating patterns, anger, and control problems.
Her approach balances practical strategies with steady listening. People who want straightforward feedback and concrete tools will find this style helpful. She welcomes clients from Tennessee and beyond who prefer online or phone-based care.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and acceptance. The therapist offers empathy and meets the person where they are, which helps people feel understood and safe to talk through worries and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors. It helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes to ease anxiety, depression, and phobias.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills can be practiced between sessions to reduce impulsivity and improve coping.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try different techniques, and adapt based on what feels useful. This collaborative process helps shape a practical plan that fits individual needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are good for short check-ins or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting, or travel while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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