About Kristi
Kristi Strickland is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, skills-based care. She uses everyday language and straightforward tools to help people manage stress and anxiety. Kristi meets people where they are and aims to make therapy feel understandable and doable.
She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, and client-centered listening to shape each session. That means sessions can include thinking through unhelpful thoughts, practicing coping skills, and clarifying values to guide choices.
Background and approach
Kristi also brings techniques from dialectical behavior methods and psychodynamic-informed Jungian ideas when they fit the person’s needs. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Indiana University and clinical practice across a range of concerns. She has worked with people facing depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, grief, parenting struggles, relationship and family problems, and mood instability.
She has experience with autism spectrum and intellectual disability issues as well. Kristi typically uses short exercises, talk-based problem solving, and behavioral experiments to build new habits. She can coordinate care with psychiatrists or other community providers when helpful.
Sessions are practical and focused on skills that people can use between meetings. Kristi offers services from Indiana and conducts sessions in English. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose how to connect.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Kristi uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people reduce anxiety and manage stress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with simple behavioral experiments to change reactions. ACT emphasizes noticing thoughts and values-based action so people can act in line with what matters despite uncomfortable feelings.Finding the best approach is a team effort. Kristi will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. Sessions are collaborative and can shift over time as needs change, blending skills practice, values work, and supportive listening.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills coaching. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support easier to fit between obligations. These options help people keep therapy consistent while adapting to their schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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