About Kristen
Dr. Kristen Dreyfus is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on anxiety and related life stresses. She helps people who are managing relationship strain, career stress, grief, or major life changes.
Her tone is direct and calm, and she aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable. She uses an approach that pays attention to how people attach to others and how that affects day-to-day feelings. Sessions often include talking through difficult emotions, noticing interaction patterns, and practicing simple new ways of communicating.
Background and approach
Kristen blends mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to keep work grounded and actionable. With 17 years of experience as an NC LMFT - a licensed marriage and family therapist in North Carolina - she has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, parenting strain, chronic illness, and identity-related stress.
That background informs an approach that looks at both current problems and their roots in family of origin or attachment history. Kristen places emphasis on building safety in the therapy relationship first. From there she helps clients set clear goals, test small changes, and track what works.
Her style is collaborative and practical - she aims to leave people with tools they can use between sessions. People often come for anxiety, sleep trouble, or relationship and intimacy concerns. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, or caregiver stress.
Sessions address emotions, behavior, and daily routines to create steady, manageable change.
How attachment and emotion work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns of relating show up now. Online sessions focus on noticing those patterns in current relationships and practicing new ways of connecting. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify core emotions behind arguments or withdrawal and learn how to express them so responses change. Mindfulness Therapy adds short practices to increase awareness of bodily sensations and anxious thoughts so reactions can be chosen rather than automatic.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort. This often means trying a few techniques and adjusting based on what helps most in daily life.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier if someone is not on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, reflection between sessions, or ongoing problem-solving. These options help people maintain continuity of care across schedules and locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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