About Kirsten
Kirsten King is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with more than two decades of practice. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those coping with grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, or major life changes. Her tone in sessions is calm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to make space for practical problem solving.
Kirsten uses approaches that focus on values, behavior, and attachment patterns to help people feel steadier.
Background and approach
She often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify what matters most and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and change small behaviors. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and emotional safety. Her background includes long experience in both independent practice and rural settings in Montana.
That experience has shaped a straightforward style that blends skills training with careful listening. She offers strategies for sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, and coping with chronic illness or pain. Kirsten also supports people facing trauma, domestic violence histories, and complex family concerns.
She works with issues ranging from codependency and communication problems to forgiveness and identity questions such as gender dysphoria. Her approach balances practical tools with attention to how past relationships affect today's feelings. Many people seek her help for ongoing stress, compassion fatigue, or challenges linked to ADHD or bipolar mood patterns.
She focuses on helping individuals build routines, reduce distressing symptoms, and take steps that match their values and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult thoughts appear. It focuses on actions a person can try now rather than getting stuck in trying to eliminate uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that increase distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses; it helps people notice interaction styles and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a client's needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can blend these approaches so work stays practical and tailored to the person rather than rigidly following a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversational work and exercises that benefit from seeing each other. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and rural living.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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