About Kristen
Kristen Paeth is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works with adults facing anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and major life changes. She listens first and helps people name what matters most to them. Kristen uses straightforward talk and practical steps so conversations feel useful from the start.
Kristen brings eight years of clinical experience, alongside social work roles in child protective services and in-home autism support. She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.
Background and approach
Those experiences shaped a direct, down-to-earth style of care. Her approach centers on the client. Kristen focuses on building rapport, asking clear questions, and setting realistic goals together.
She blends Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness practices to help people change thoughts, try new behaviors, and manage fast-moving emotions. Sessions often include problem-solving, tracking patterns, and short experiments to test new ways of coping. Kristen also uses solution-focused and motivational interviewing techniques to help people decide their next steps and stay motivated.
She emphasizes practical tools that can be used between sessions. Kristen is comfortable discussing sensitive topics such as trauma, addiction, intimacy, kink and alternative sex culture, caregiver stress, and issues related to work or parenting. She aims to make space for people to be honest about hard things and to take small, steady steps toward their goals.
How Kristen blends methods for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and working at the client’s pace, helping people name priorities and decide what change looks like for them. It’s useful for those who need acceptance and a steady, supportive guide while they figure things out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Kristen uses CBT to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns, try new responses, and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms through practical exercises.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and manage strong emotions. It pairs well with CBT when people want tools to calm their response in stressful moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kristen collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. She adjusts the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support between appointments.
These formats make it easier to practice skills in real life and to stay connected when schedules are busy.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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