About Kristen
Kristen Sims is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of clinical experience based in Florida. She focuses on helping people handle anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and addictive patterns. Kristen uses a whole-person view to help people move toward healthier daily routines and stronger emotional balance.
She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk honestly about what feels hard. Sessions begin with practical goals set together.
Background and approach
Kristen offers steady guidance and concrete steps people can try between appointments. Her background includes long-term work with adults facing trauma, mood challenges, panic disorder, and relationship difficulties. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and issues around attachment, abandonment, and intimacy.
That experience shapes how she helps people manage symptoms and rebuild connection in their lives. Kristen favors techniques grounded in evidence and adapts them to each person’s needs. She helps people learn skills for managing intense emotions, reducing panic, and breaking cycles of impulsivity or avoidance.
Kristen encourages small, realistic changes that add up over time. Practical problems are part of the work too. She helps with communication problems, setting boundaries, and coping with major life changes.
People who want steady, experienced support for anxiety and related concerns often find her approach clear and task-focused.
Evidence-based approaches and remote care
Kristen draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. One common approach she uses focuses on teaching practical skills for managing emotions and panic - this involves breathing and grounding strategies, and steps to reduce avoidance and worry. It is useful for panic attacks, social anxiety, and daily stress.Another approach centers on working through trauma and attachment issues in a gradual, paced way. This method helps people process difficult memories, reduce reactivity, and rebuild trust in relationships. It can be helpful for post-traumatic stress, abandonment concerns, and intimacy-related issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristen collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy with Kristen is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth sessions, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or people who prefer written support. These options are meant to increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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