About Kristina
Kristina Hoeksema is a licensed social worker in Michigan with five years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety and navigate grief, trauma, and life changes. Kristina focuses on building confidence and motivation with a clear, practical style.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and works alongside them to find what helps. Her sessions start with listening to what matters most. She identifies small, doable steps a person can take between meetings.
Background and approach
Kristina uses straightforward language and keeps tools simple so they fit into busy days. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Kristina draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address worries, low mood, and coping problems.
She supports people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, and issues tied to family of origin. Her background includes work with grief, hospice and end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, and trauma-related reactions. People who come for help can expect a calm, encouraging presence and practical options to try.
Kristina helps identify patterns that keep problems going and then tests new ways of responding. She emphasizes strengths and builds skills that people can use long after sessions end. Kristina offers sessions in English and is open to working with international clients.
She uses a mix of talk, problem solving, and symptom-focused strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
How evidence-based techniques are used online
Kristina uses practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with anxiety and stress. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing alternative thoughts to reduce worry and low mood. This method helps people notice thoughts that increase distress and try new mental habits.Another approach emphasizes behavioral changes - breaking problems into small steps and practicing them gradually. This can help with avoidance linked to anxiety, build confidence, and improve daily routines. Both approaches are hands-on and include skills you can use between sessions.
Finding the right way to work together is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan over time based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you see facial cues during conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can suit people who prefer written check-ins or flexible timing. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
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- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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