About Kristie
Kristie Pressler is a licensed independent social worker who helps adults working through stress and anxiety. She writes plainly and listens closely to what brought each person to therapy. She aims to make sessions feel practical and focused on real-life changes.
Kristie uses a blend of evidence-based therapeutic techniques that match each person's needs. She helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns, practice mindfulness, and try new ways of coping. Sessions often include skill-building and steps to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and addiction.
Background and approach
With 14 years of clinical experience, Kristie draws on a broad background supporting people through relationship struggles, self-esteem issues, and big life transitions. She also addresses topics such as grief, substance use, attachment concerns, caregiving stress, body image, and forgiveness. Her work includes support for first responders and people facing aging and geriatric issues.
Kristie is based in Ohio and holds the LISW credential, which stands for Licensed Independent Social Worker. She offers care in English and does not work with international clients at this time. Therapy with Kristie often begins with a short assessment to clarify goals and immediate concerns.
She tailors each plan as she learns what helps a person feel steadier and more in control. People who want practical tools and steady support may find her style a good fit.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Kristie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and steady progress. Cognitive approaches help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns that feed anxiety and depression. Mindfulness and acceptance strategies teach present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental noticing to reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kristie collaborates with each person to decide what methods make sense given their goals, life demands, and comfort level. Together they try interventions, track what helps, and adjust the plan so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is helpful for a full-session conversation and learning coping skills; phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between scheduled meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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