About Kristen
Kristen Wright is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of experience. She works with adults facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. Her focus is on practical support and steady guidance for people who feel overwhelmed and unsure where to start.
Kristen keeps sessions simple and direct. She listens first, then helps people name what feels most urgent. Together they set small, achievable steps to reduce distress and build stronger coping habits.
Background and approach
She emphasizes realistic tools that fit into a busy life. Her background includes long clinical practice helping people process attachment wounds, abandonment, and family of origin issues. She also supports those dealing with codependency, communication problems, and the effects of abuse or domestic violence.
Kristen draws on years of experience to adapt her work to each person’s situation. Two common approaches she uses are client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means sessions move between reflecting what matters to the client and trying out concrete changes in thinking and behavior.
The goal is to balance understanding with action. People who choose Kristen often want a steady, experienced guide rather than quick fixes. She helps with life transitions, finding purpose, and repairing relationships with oneself and others.
Her practice aims to make progress feel manageable and real for everyday life.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person’s experience. The therapist reflects what matters to the client and follows their priorities so sessions feel personal and respectful. This approach suits people who need a supportive space to make sense of feelings and relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses clear steps and experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, stress, and low mood.
Choosing an approach is part of the work together. Kristen will help figure out what fits your goals and preferences, and she adjusts methods as you make progress. The process is collaborative and paced to your needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you have fuller conversations when you want face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it simple to check in between sessions or fit short updates into a busy day. These options allow steady support while fitting therapy into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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