About Kristin
Dr. Kristin Rice is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She supports people facing relationship strain, family conflict, grief, and life transitions.
She also works with concerns like sleep problems, parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, and career uncertainty. Dr. Rice focuses on practical work in sessions.
She listens, helps people clarify their goals, and teaches skills to handle upsetting thoughts and feelings. She draws on methods that combine thinking, body awareness, and values-based choices to make change feel useful and doable.
Background and approach
With eight years of clinical experience, Kristin brings steady, straightforward guidance to therapy. She encourages clients to notice what matters and to take small steps that match their life situation. She treats anxiety as a mix of thoughts, bodily reactions, and habits that can be shifted over time.
Her background includes work with trauma, intimacy-related concerns, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and caregiver stress. She also helps people dealing with fertility concerns, betrayal, and codependency patterns. Kristin uses tools from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to people both inside and outside the United States. People can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She practices in Connecticut as a CT LPC and aims to make therapy practical and collaborative.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and life stress
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that align with personal values. This approach can be useful for anxiety, grief, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it often helps with anxiety, sleep issues, and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can be helpful for intimacy issues and relationship conflict.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into real life. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills in the moment. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging provide quick check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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