About Kristin
Kristin Charalambidis is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward conversation to help clients find practical steps forward. Kristin aims to create a respectful and compassionate space for people taking the first steps toward change.
She works with common concerns like relationship strain, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and motivation. Kristin also supports people facing grief, career stress, addictions, and shifts in family life.
Background and approach
Her approach is adaptable so sessions match each person's goals and situation. Kristin draws on a mix of well-known methods to guide sessions. She blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness.
She also uses trauma-focused techniques and approaches for relationship work when they fit the client's needs. Her background includes six years of professional counseling experience in New Jersey as an LPC - licensed professional counselor.
That experience includes work with a range of issues such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue, along with additional focuses like attachment and abandonment experiences. Outside sessions she hosts a mental health podcast called Outis Through Podcast that can be a supplemental resource between appointments.
Kristin asks that appointment requests include at least 48 hours notice so she can receive and confirm scheduling, and she encourages clients to follow her professional pages for more information.
Approaches in online care and what they do
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding first. It helps people feel heard and begin to make choices that match their values and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is a trauma-focused approach that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that seem to fit. Decisions about techniques happen collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for relationship or trauma-focused work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging offer flexible ways to check in between sessions or when a written approach feels easier. These options make it possible to fit counseling into a busy life and to keep continuity even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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