About Kristen
Kristen Templin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of practice in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem struggles. Kristen listens closely and offers steady support during hard moments.
Her work often centers on practical steps people can use right away. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and a client-centered stance. That means sessions look at unhelpful thoughts, develop small experiments, and practice skills to feel more grounded.
Background and approach
Kristen also addresses issues tied to family life, caregiving, chronic illness, and body image. She helps people cope with major life transitions, end-of-life concerns, and the emotional fallout from infidelity or loss. She pays attention to patterns such as control issues, isolation, or process addictions and helps clients find manageable ways forward.
Over time she emphasizes collaboration and clear goals. Sessions include talking things through, trying new behaviors, and noticing what shifts. Kristen uses motivational interviewing to support change and strengthen motivation when people feel stuck.
Therapy is scheduled to fit clients who prefer video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are conducted in English and follow Pennsylvania LCSW standards. Getting started is a short matching process and then scheduling according to availability.
How Kristen’s Methods Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s goals. The therapist offers empathy and reflects what matters most so people feel heard and can set practical steps toward change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck. Sessions involve noticing patterns, testing new behaviors, and practicing skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm the body and reduce reactivity. It helps people create small moments of relief and build tolerance for difficult feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristen will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. She adapts plans as progress and challenges emerge so the approach matches practical daily life.
Online sessions can make regular therapy easier to keep. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging lets people send updates or arrange brief check-ins between appointments. These options support flexibility and help therapy fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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