About Kirsten
Kirsten Dagrosa is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, depression, and related concerns. She offers straightforward support for people wrestling with trauma, grief, career questions, and life transitions. Kirsten also addresses compassion fatigue and culturally informed issues that affect daily life.
She brings five years of clinical experience to sessions and combines practical talk with reflective listening. Kirsten names her Christian faith as an important part of her life and will respect clients who want to keep their values present in therapy.
Background and approach
She aims to help people clarify goals and take concrete steps toward them. Sessions focus on understanding patterns that keep people stuck and trying new ways of coping. Conversations cover attachment concerns, codependency, communication problems, control issues, and recovery from domestic violence.
Kirsten also supports work around emptiness, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and post-traumatic stress. People often work on social anxiety, isolation, and finding life purpose through steady, small changes. Kirsten uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and build skills.
She frames therapy as teamwork: clients bring expertise about their lives and she offers clinical guidance. In New York she provides sessions in English and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Practical steps like clarifying values, improving communication, and setting achievable goals are central to her approach.
Approaches and online options for anxiety and stress
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on identifying unhelpful patterns, building coping skills, and improving relationships. One common approach is cognitive-based work that helps people notice and change thought patterns that fuel anxiety and low mood. This method teaches practical strategies for managing worry, reducing rumination, and testing beliefs in everyday situations.Another useful approach centers on attachment and relationship patterns. It looks at how early connections shape current expectations and communication, and it offers tools to improve boundaries, reduce codependent behaviors, and handle conflict more effectively. These methods are helpful for people dealing with relationship strain, loneliness, or social anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That work may shift over time as different challenges arise and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and fit therapy into busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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