About Kristen
Kristen Patryna is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and related concerns. She aims to build an equal, respectful relationship so clients feel heard while they work toward change. She has seven years of clinical experience and more years working in the field overall.
Kristen meets with teens and adults in individual and group settings. She blends validation with practical problem solving so people leave sessions with skills they can use in daily life.
Background and approach
Her work combines client-centered principles with cognitive behavioral tools. That means she listens closely, reflects back what she hears, and then helps clients test new ways of thinking and behaving. She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
Sessions often focus on managing panic, social anxiety, obsessions and compulsions, mood swings, and self-esteem concerns. Kristen also supports people dealing with addiction problems, trauma, family and communication issues, parenting strain, and life transitions. She offers therapy in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English.
Kristen favors a collaborative style where goals and tools are chosen together, and she encourages practice of new skills between sessions.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and collaboration so clients feel understood and can set their own goals. It helps people who need space to talk and to build motivation for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot patterns of thinking and behavior that worsen anxiety or depression and then practice concrete techniques to change them. It often includes homework and small experiments to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) contributes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness. These tools can reduce intense emotions and improve communication in stressful moments.
Kristen approaches therapy as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which approaches fit best for their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they set aims and pick practical tools to try, then adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face work and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for choosing how to work together.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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