About Kristi
Kristi Taylor-Sayles is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, life changes, and depression. She focuses on trauma and abuse, family concerns, and related issues such as attachment and caregiver stress. Her approach is calm and respectful, aimed at making the first steps less overwhelming for a worried parent or caregiver.
Kristi uses practical conversation and listening to tailor each session to the person's needs. She draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at relationship patterns and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Trauma-Focused Therapy informs her work when past events are affecting day-to-day life. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what the client can manage. She emphasizes clear goals and small, doable steps so progress feels tangible.
Forgiveness, self-love, and caregiver well-being are common topics when those issues are present. Kristi holds the credential LICSW and uses MD, LCSW-C in professional contexts. She practices in Maryland and brings five years of experience to her current clinical work.
That background includes roles in child welfare and work with adoption and foster care concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward. She aims to make therapy feel understandable and useful rather than confusing.
If you are looking for help with anxiety or the effects of past trauma, she offers an approach that connects feelings, relationships, and day-to-day coping.
How these approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions can help identify patterns between caregivers and children or between partners, and support healthier ways of connecting and responding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then try strategies together to see what helps. That means treatment can be adjusted over time based on what the client finds most effective.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for interactive exercises and facial cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy family schedule or when travel is difficult, while keeping the focus on practical steps for coping and recovery.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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