About Kristen
Kristen Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She brings 27 years of professional experience to sessions and focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. She listens for what matters most to each person and supports steady progress toward clearer goals.
Kristen helps people cope with anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related stress. She also addresses grief, career questions, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and care-related burnout.
Background and approach
Her work covers a wide range of emotional and life adjustments that make daily life harder. Her style is straightforward and centered on the client. Kristen treats the person she meets as the expert on their life and builds on existing strengths.
Sessions aim to be down-to-earth, with steps you can try between meetings. She uses approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and some dialectical behavior strategies to manage strong emotions. Those methods are applied in ways that fit each individual's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Kristen offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care fit into real schedules. She works with adults on a range of concerns and helps people set small, realistic goals to reduce stress and improve functioning.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting concerns and helping people identify their own goals and strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks down problems into manageable steps and suggests practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which is helpful for anxiety and low mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It includes grounding techniques and emotion-regulation tools that can be practiced between sessions.
Deciding which approach fits best is a team effort. The therapist will talk through goals, personal preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins and written reflections between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, care routine, or travel schedule without changing the focus on real change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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