About Kitra
Kitra Thomas is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works with adults who are struggling with workplace pressures, career changes, or the lingering effects of past abuse. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady support rather than quick fixes.
Thomas uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to help clients build coping skills. She listens for each person’s strengths and priorities, then helps them set short-term goals that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs. Her background includes long experience addressing workplace issues and career concerns alongside clinical difficulties. That blend lets her connect how job stress and personal history affect mood, attention, and functioning.
She helps people untangle those links and plan realistic changes. Therapy typically emphasizes skill building for managing anxiety and attention differences, and gentle processing of traumatic experiences when clients are ready. Sessions include practical tools for stress management, clearer routines, and strategies to handle hard conversations at work.
Based in Wisconsin, Thomas practices with attention to cultural responsiveness and creating an affirming environment. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Kitra uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and recovery. One common approach she uses emphasizes skill building for anxiety and attention differences, teaching breathing, grounding, and routine strategies that help reduce overwhelm and improve focus. These tools are easy to practice between sessions and adapt well to remote formats.Another frequent focus is trauma-informed care, which means pacing conversations so people feel ready to process difficult memories and building safety and coping skills first. This approach helps when someone wants to work through past abuse or ongoing trauma reactions while maintaining stability in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily demands. That decision is revisited as progress continues so the plan changes if something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this kind of work. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill coaching and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, use coping prompts, or check in between sessions for extra support. Together, these options make care more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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