About Kristen
Dr. Kristen Rumley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience. She practices from Texas and focuses on helping people with stress and anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
She emphasizes a straightforward, respectful approach in sessions. Before independent practice she served in the United States Air Force and spent many years working alongside first responders and disaster response teams. That background informs how she understands pressure, burnout, and the effects of trauma.
Background and approach
Her work includes helping people with relationship and attachment concerns, communication problems, and issues like codependency and commitment worries. Her style is warm and direct. She aims to build a strong therapy relationship where clients can speak honestly.
Sessions are intended to be a place for practical problem solving and reflection, not judgement. She uses approaches that help people tell their story, notice patterns, and build new ways of coping. Examples include client-centered listening, attachment-focused conversation, mindfulness skills, and motivational techniques to support change.
These methods are applied to concerns such as addictions, intimacy-related problems, sleep and eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Dr. Rumley prefers video sessions but also offers phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a prospective client follows the Start Therapy steps and schedules according to availability.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy in her work focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how past bonds affect current connections. It is useful for relationship worries, attachment issues, and feelings of abandonment.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. Sessions emphasize listening, reflection, and working at the client’s pace to build self-understanding and confidence, which can help with self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively to identify what fits each person's goals and preferences, and adjusts methods as therapy progresses. Clients can expect conversations about which strategies feel most useful and changes are made together.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist see nonverbal cues and allow deeper conversation. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, and ongoing support between synchronous sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, or unpredictable schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Texas, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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