About Kristi
Kristi Whitford is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience supporting adults through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She writes and speaks plainly, listens carefully, and focuses on what will help someone feel steadier day to day. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental.
Sessions are centered on each person's goals and needs. She uses practical tools and conversation to help people notice what matters and make small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Kristi draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name their values and take steps toward them even when anxiety is present. She also uses client-centered work to follow a person's lead and motivational interviewing to support readiness for change. Solution-focused techniques help set clear, short-term goals people can try between sessions.
Over two decades she has worked with people facing addiction, relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting concerns, chronic illness and caregiver stress, adoption and foster care issues, and consequences of separation or divorce. She also addresses family of origin problems, communication breakdowns, codependency, and feelings of emptiness. Kristi sees the therapeutic process as a collaboration.
She helps people build coping skills, refine communication, and find direction after loss or trauma. Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at making daily life more manageable.
Using evidence-based approaches in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings while focusing on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping after loss. Client-Centered Therapy means the therapist follows the client's lead, listens deeply, and builds a trusting working relationship that lets a person explore concerns at their own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That conversation shapes whether more ACT, motivational interviewing, or solution-focused steps are used in sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people see facial cues and do deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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