About Krista
Krista Arrington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life transitions. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Her style is straightforward and down-to-earth.
Krista combines cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness exercises to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses. She works collaboratively, using goal setting and problem solving to track progress.
Background and approach
Sessions are respectful and direct, with room for humor when it fits. Her background includes community-based outpatient programs and recent work in public schools. That history informs her understanding of learning differences, special education, and parenting challenges linked to neurodiversity.
She also has experience supporting people through grief, caregiving strain, and end-of-life issues. Krista helps people who are dealing with relationship problems, family conflict, sleep difficulties, mood shifts, and anxiety. She also addresses issues such as compassion fatigue, first responder stress, and adjustment after major change.
Her approach adapts to each person’s goals and daily life demands. In session she uses simple, evidence-informed techniques - for example, shifting thoughts that fuel worry and adding small mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. Clients can expect a mix of practical skill-building and attention to the patterns that keep problems recurring.
People who prefer a clear, organized process tend to do well with Krista. She focuses on achievable steps and ongoing progress monitoring so clients can see change over time.
How CBT and Mindfulness fit into online therapy
Krista uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that increase anxiety or depression. CBT sessions often include setting concrete goals, practicing new responses between sessions, and reviewing progress together.She also integrates mindfulness therapy to teach brief attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve sleep and emotion regulation. These exercises are simple to practice during a break at work or before bed and can be discussed and adjusted in session.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Krista will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and what fits into everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full-session conversations and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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