About Kristen
Kristen Lewis is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and draws on a long career helping people face stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship struggles. She approaches work with a respectful, down-to-earth manner and sees clients as the experts on their own lives.
Kristen focuses on practical steps that people can use day to day. She helps clients with parenting concerns, grief, sleep problems, addiction, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with career shifts, compassion fatigue, and the challenges that come with major life changes. Her methods include client-centered work that emphasizes listening and collaboration. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and motivational interviewing to build readiness for change.
Narrative and psychodynamic approaches are part of how she helps clients understand patterns and personal stories. Kristen has long experience working with LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, and family-of-origin issues. She also addresses specialized topics such as adoption and foster care, aging and caregiver stress, first responder issues, and gender dysphoria.
Her background makes her comfortable navigating complex histories and layered struggles. People who contact Kristen can expect straightforward conversation and clear goals. She aims to help clients identify strengths, try new approaches, and move toward a more satisfying life.
Starting therapy is framed as a step taken with support rather than a solo burden.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kristen uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, collaborative space where clients lead the conversation and the therapist follows their priorities. This approach helps when someone needs support making sense of their feelings or deciding what matters most to work on.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and habits that get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kristen will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. She treats therapy as a partnership and checks in about how things are going so adjustments can be made together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free option is preferred. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy lives and find the rhythm that works best for them.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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