About Kristen
Kristen Buongiorno is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes using clear, practical methods. Her style is warm and direct and she encourages clients to take an active role in change.
She draws on approaches that link thoughts and behaviors to daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a core part of her work, along with mindfulness practices to help with grounding and emotion regulation.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered ideas to shape goals around what matters most to each person. Kristen has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, addiction, caregiver stress, and issues related to military service. She supports concerns such as self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, and work or career stress.
She also addresses areas like body image, abandonment, and living with bipolar or ADHD symptoms. In sessions she is straightforward but compassionate. She helps people build safety plans when needed and speaks frankly about difficult topics.
Clients set goals together with her and she offers tools they can use between meetings. Kristen provides therapy in New Jersey and conducts sessions in English. She offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their day-to-day life.
Her practice emphasizes practical skills, collaboration, and steady progress over time.
Online therapy using CBT and mindfulness
Kristen often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and the behaviors that follow. CBT breaks problems into small steps and gives concrete exercises people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and manage mood.She also teaches mindfulness techniques to help clients stay grounded and reduce reactivity to stressful moments. Mindfulness sessions include simple breathing and attention practices that people can use when feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristen will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then recommend strategies to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging allows short ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life while keeping focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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