About Kirstina
Kirstina Quast is a licensed independent clinical social worker who helps people struggling with anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. She brings nine years of clinical experience and practical problem solving to sessions. Kirstina aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on real-life changes.
She works with a wide range of problems, including parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, infertility concerns, mood disorders, addiction, and career stress. Kirstina also supports people facing loss, end-of-life caregiving stress, and complex family-of-origin issues.
Background and approach
She names attachment concerns and adoption-related challenges as areas she often addresses. Kirstina uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person's needs. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and change patterns.
She uses Attachment-Based methods to look at relationship patterns that started early and still cause pain. She also offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for people with trauma history. Kirstina describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She sees the person in front of her as the expert in their life and offers practical strategies alongside space to process feelings. Sessions often include goal-focused work, practical coping skills, and exploration of how past relationships shape present behavior. Her background includes work across adult and children's mental health, residential treatment, child welfare, and adoption and foster care services in Minnesota.
Kirstina brings experience with hospice and end-of-life counseling, caregiver stress, and communication and intimacy issues.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how people relate today. It helps when patterns from childhood affect trust, intimacy, or parenting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It is often used to manage anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete coping skills and behavior changes. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity.Kirstina treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether CBT, attachment work, EMDR, or a mix of methods makes the most sense for the issue at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing written support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines while keeping a consistent path toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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