About Kristie
Kristie Pagel-Compagner is a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and trauma. Kristie uses straightforward talk and practical tools to help clients feel steadier in day-to-day life.
She combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. That means sessions often look at unhelpful thinking patterns, build skills for managing strong emotions, and center the client's perspective.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented while staying attentive to each person's history. Her work pays attention to how past relationships and family of origin issues shape present feelings. Kristie helps people process grief, guilt, shame, and attachment wounds so they can make different choices now.
She also supports those facing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and end-of-life concerns. Practical concerns like panic attacks, communication problems, and co-occurring conditions are part of her caseload. She helps people break distressing cycles and rehearse new responses.
Over time clients often report clearer thinking and better ways to handle intense moments. Kristie holds an LMSW, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Kristie integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy into her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely, reflecting what matters to the person, and shaping goals around their priorities. It helps when someone needs a respectful, steady space to sort feelings. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kristie will talk with each person about their goals, what has helped or not helped before, and which methods feel like a good fit. Together they decide whether to concentrate on skills practice, deeper exploration of past patterns, or a mix of both.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging make short check-ins or step-by-step coaching possible between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for busy days, caregiving demands, or managing symptoms without long commutes.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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