About Crystal
Crystal Bartlett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and changes in mood or life circumstances. Crystal aims to build a collaborative relationship where the client’s perspective guides the work.
Her background includes long-term work with survivors of interpersonal violence, sexual abuse, and attachment-related wounds. She has also supported many people facing co-occurring substance use concerns.
Background and approach
This experience informs a practical, steady approach to difficult memories and crisis moments. In sessions she draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That means she listens first, then helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new coping skills.
She also teaches emotion regulation tools and ways to manage panic or overwhelm. Crystal describes the therapeutic relationship as a partnership. Clients direct the pace and topics while she offers evidence-based strategies and real-world skills.
She encourages curiosity, experimentation, and small steps toward the goals people name. People who value direct, compassionate conversation tend to do well with her style. She supports work on attachment wounds, codependency, communication problems, and recovery from substance use.
Sessions aim to help people feel more steady and confident in daily life.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s lead. In online sessions she will give space for people to tell their story and name what matters most, then shape sessions around those priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Online work can include thought records, behavioral experiments, and step-by-step skill practice to reduce anxiety and manage mood swings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. Those skills are useful for panic, intense emotions, and relationship problems and can be taught in short exercises during a video call or reinforced in between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Crystal will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. She checks in about what helps and adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and real-time skill coaching. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, morning check-ins, or practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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