About Kristina
Kristina Ellen is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 19 years in the counseling field. She focuses on stress and anxiety among other concerns and aims to help people find balance between body and mind. Her approach is down-to-earth and practical for someone looking for straightforward help.
She describes her work as holistic, looking at the whole person instead of separate symptoms. Sessions are relaxed and tailored to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Kristina uses different methods depending on what a person wants to do and what helps them reach their goals. Her background includes work in telehealth, inpatient treatment centers, Assertive Community Treatment teams, community health, primary care medical offices, and independent practice. Those experiences inform how she supports people facing relationship problems, trauma, depression, parenting stress, and issues around intimacy and identity.
Kristina holds an NC LCMHC, which is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential in North Carolina. She has nearly two decades of experience and has been recognized locally during her career for contributions to the field. In sessions she focuses on clear skills and practical steps people can use between meetings.
She listens for what matters most to each person and works with them to set goals and try strategies that fit their life. Many people find this straightforward, flexible approach helpful when managing anxiety and day-to-day stress.
How therapy approaches translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person says. It helps people feel heard and supported while they figure out goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought patterns and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, blends skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships; it can be useful for people dealing with emotional ups and downs or difficulty regulating feelings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as the person makes progress or as new concerns come up.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see facial cues and have a conversation similar to an office visit. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or touch-base communication between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while using approaches like CBT, DBT, and Client-Centered work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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