About Kriss
Kriss Light is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters most. Parents and individuals often come to her when life feels overwhelming or when a painful loss or transition needs attention.
Kriss uses practical, person-focused methods to understand how habits of thinking and attachment shape daily life. She blends approaches that look at emotions, relationships, and thinking patterns to help people find more stable ground.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to be collaborative and geared to the client's pace. With 15 years of clinical experience as an LMFT in California, Kriss has worked with people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, and major life changes. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, codependency, and body image.
Her background supports a broad range of emotional and behavioral concerns. Kriss often incorporates emotion-focused and attachment ideas to help clients understand relationship patterns and closeness struggles. She also uses cognitive-behavioral tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking that feeds anxiety and low mood.
EMDR may be part of work with trauma when appropriate. Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Kriss offers an initial process to match needs and goals, and she aims to make the first steps straightforward for people seeking help.
How attachment, emotions, and thinking work online
Kriss often uses attachment-based and emotion-focused methods together. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape how people seek closeness and comfort now, which can help with anxiety and intimacy issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and naming emotions, so strong feelings become clearer and easier to manage.She also draws on cognitive-behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and patterns that keep anxiety or low mood going. CBT techniques offer concrete steps to test and change those thoughts, and can be combined with emotion work for a rounded approach. Choosing which methods to use is a collaborative process - Kriss helps clients try approaches and adjust based on their goals and comfort level.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video lets the therapist and client read facial expressions and body language. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat and text messaging can be handy for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing helps someone organize their thoughts. Overall, online options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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