About Kris
Kris Fant is a licensed counselor who brings eight years of clinical experience to her work. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and practices in Oregon as an LPC and LMHC. Kris focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate other life challenges.
She offers a supportive, warm approach that highlights a person's strengths. Sessions involve talking through current difficulties, identifying small changes, and setting practical steps toward better sleep, mood, or daily routines.
Background and approach
Kris pays attention to health behaviors like sleep, exercise, pain management, and substance concerns when they affect well-being. Before counseling she worked in teaching, group leadership, crisis stabilization, and domestic violence advocacy. That background informs how she listens and responds to people in hard moments.
She has spent much of her career helping folks through mood concerns, grief, and recovery from traumatic events. Kris draws on psychodynamic ideas, attachment perspectives, Rogerian principles, and behavioral strategies to shape an individualized plan. She uses those ideas to understand patterns and to try practical changes that fit each person's life.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who want help sorting out relationships, career decisions, or daily stressors can expect collaborative sessions. Kris will help explore where someone is now, clarify goals, and build steps to move forward.
Approaches that guide online care and how they help
Psychodynamic ideas focus on patterns that repeat over time and help people understand how past experiences influence current feelings and relationships. This can be useful for anxiety, relationship strain, or recurring mood problems.Attachment-informed work explores how early bonds shape trust and connection in adult relationships. It helps people who struggle with closeness, anger, or repeated conflicts to notice patterns and try new ways of relating.
Behavioral strategies emphasize practical habit changes like improving sleep, managing pain, reducing substance use, and building exercise or relaxation routines. These techniques aim to produce small measurable changes that ease stress and boost energy.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit a person's goals, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. Clients and the therapist choose strategies together based on needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people keep a face-to-face rhythm when that matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging work for shorter check-ins, written reflection, or when typing is easier. These options make it simpler to keep consistent appointments while juggling daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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