About Kristen
Kristen Buchannan is an Ohio-licensed independent social worker with 25 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by life. She focuses on stress and anxiety and on problems that touch daily life, like relationships, parenting, grief, and changes at work. Kristen speaks plainly, listens closely, and treats people with respect and compassion.
Her style is practical and adaptable. She works with each person to shape conversations and a plan that fit their needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters right now and on small steps that can make things feel more manageable. Over her career she has supported people coping with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, sleep difficulties, and intimacy-related worries. She also helps those navigating LGBT concerns and attention-deficit challenges.
Kristen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and everyday problems. Clients can expect a collaborative approach rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. She will listen for strengths and patterns, then help set clear, realistic goals.
The process is paced to match each person’s readiness for change. Kristen offers sessions in English and practices in Ohio. Her background includes long-term clinical work that emphasizes steady support and practical tools.
She encourages anyone who is ready to take a first step toward feeling better to consider beginning the process.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Kristen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common method helps people identify unhelpful thinking and test new, more balanced thoughts to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This approach teaches straightforward skills to notice thought patterns and try alternative ways of thinking.Another approach emphasizes skill-building and behavior change. It focuses on small, doable steps to improve sleep, manage stress, and handle difficult situations in relationships or at work. These techniques are goal-oriented and often include exercises between sessions to build momentum.
Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will pick methods that fit the person's life and adjust the plan as needed.
Online therapy is delivered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls can recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets someone send notes or questions between sessions. These options make it easier to get care around work, family obligations, and busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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