About Kristi
Kristi Heritage is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with six years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, substance use, grief, depression, and related concerns. Her approach is warm and interactive and she aims to treat each person with respect and compassion.
Kristi uses conversational, goal-focused sessions to help people find practical ways forward. She draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness tools when they fit a person’s needs. Kristi has experience working with a wide range of issues including ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses specialized topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and adjustment after separation or divorce. She tailors the session plan to each person and combines techniques based on what helps in the moment. Kristi encourages live sessions so conversations can be more focused, while also using messaging between sessions when useful.
Her style is direct but empathetic, and she avoids labels that might feel stigmatizing. Practical matters such as scheduling and response times vary day to day. Kristi asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and to schedule sessions that fit their availability.
How her approaches translate to online care
Kristi uses client-centered work to focus on each person's goals and values, creating space for the person to guide what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits through small, practical steps that translate well to homework between sessions. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and grounding techniques useful for anxiety and trauma recovery.She treats finding the right approach as a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clearer. That collaborative process helps pick the tools that feel most helpful for the client's situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and demonstrations of skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging let people share updates between sessions and get brief support without scheduling a full visit. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between live meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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