About Kristilee
Kristilee (Kristi) Cappaert is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Independent Social Worker who supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship strain, and issues with self-esteem and parenting. She brings five years of counseling experience in Illinois and Iowa. Kristi speaks plainly and meets people where they are in moments of change or overwhelm.
Her sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals. She listens first, then helps clients notice patterns in thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Together they try options that fit daily life, from short coping skills to longer work on relationship or career questions. Kristi uses client-centered methods that keep the person’s priorities in view. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on dialectical behavior techniques to teach emotional regulation.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven in when useful to build awareness and motivation. Her background includes work with people facing addictions, caregiving stress, blended family issues, and end-of-life concerns. Kristi has experience with intimacy-related challenges, forgiveness work, and first responder stress.
She tailors sessions to the issue at hand and the pace each person prefers. Sessions can include skill practice, values-based planning, and short-term solutions for immediate needs. She aims to help people regain steadiness, reconnect with what matters, and take manageable steps forward.
How practical therapies translate to online care
Kristi commonly uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities, helping clients set goals and choose what to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and routines, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood struggles. Dialectical behavior therapy adds skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, helping when feelings run high and relationships feel strained.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Kristi will talk with each person about goals, try approaches that fit their situation, and adjust methods as progress is made. The aim is to find techniques that feel useful in daily life rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short updates, skill practice, or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Iowa, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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