About Kristin
Kristin Fox-Klingensmith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of experience in mental health. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and the strain of life changes. Kristin uses a warm, interactive style that aims to make difficult conversations easier to start.
She has worked in many settings, including community mental health, a psychiatric hospital, outpatient clinics, and county jails. That range has given her experience with issues that vary in intensity.
Background and approach
Kristin often supports people with relationship concerns, parenting strain, eating struggles, anger, bipolar challenges, and attention concerns such as ADHD. Her counseling approach is person-centered and collaborative. Sessions focus on practical skills and honest talk, not labels.
Kristin draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change patterns, dialectical behavior methods for emotional regulation, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing is part of her work with people who want to change substance use or other habits. She adapts techniques to a person’s pace and goals, and she helps set clear, achievable objectives.
Kristin emphasizes the relationship itself as the main tool for progress. Having been through counseling herself, she understands how hard it can feel to ask for help. Kristin aims to create a respectful, encouraging space where people can start small, try new coping skills, and track real changes over time.
How Kristin’s approaches work online
Kristin uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Kristin works collaboratively to explore what methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or comfort on camera matters, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between appointments. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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