About Kristina
Kristina Dugas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She also supports clients facing trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and concerns related to LGBT identity. Her straightforward approach aims to build practical skills people can use day to day.
Kristina has seven years of clinical experience working across residential settings, schools, and outpatient care. She has helped people with social anxiety and phobia and has used a range of evidence-informed techniques to match individual needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, usable steps rather than abstract theory. In sessions she emphasizes collaboration. People set goals together, and Kristina helps break those goals into manageable actions.
She often combines behavioral strategies with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to increase coping and confidence. Kristina pays attention to strengths and progress. She helps people spot what already works and build on it.
Parenting support uses practical tools to manage everyday challenges and to reduce stress at home. Her style is direct and supportive. Kristina adapts methods to fit each person’s situation and comfort level.
She aims to make therapy feel useful from the first few meetings.
Evidence-based approaches and online flexibility
Kristina uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear, practical steps. One common approach is cognitive behavioral methods that help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; this can be useful for general anxiety and social anxiety. She also draws on mindfulness practices to teach simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce moment-to-moment worry and increase emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kristina works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts strategies over time and checks in regularly to see what is helping and what needs to change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people seeking support. Video calls allow for face-to-face interaction while fitting sessions into a busy day. Phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option or a way to do a focused check-in when time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, on-the-go ways to share updates or get coaching between longer appointments. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity and practice skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Maine
- Languages
- English
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