About Kristina
Kristina Kerr is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee with 20 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, person-centered style that helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction-related concerns, and mood challenges. Kristina focuses on practical steps people can try right away and meets them where they are in the process.
Her background includes graduate training in counseling and two decades working across clinical settings. That experience means she has supported people through trauma, grief, relationship strain, and changes like separation or career shifts.
Background and approach
She also helps with issues tied to body image, eating and sleeping problems, and struggles with impulse control. In sessions she draws on client-centered therapy to create acceptance and respect. She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness practices are used for emotion regulation and stress reduction when helpful. Kristina adapts methods to the person in front of her instead of using one fixed approach. That often means mixing coping skills, motivational interviewing, and problem-solving to fit each situation.
She aims for clear, simple tools people can use between sessions to notice progress. People who connect with her can expect straightforward conversation focused on real-life challenges. Kristina works with adults on concerns such as addiction, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, depression, and coping with life changes.
Sessions are offered in English and open to international clients.
How her approaches fit with online therapy
Kristina commonly uses client-centered therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Client-centered work focuses on acceptance and listening so people feel heard and understood during sessions. CBT is a hands-on approach that helps identify thought and behavior patterns and then practices new ways of reacting to stress and anxiety.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when strong emotions or impulsive behaviors get in the way. DBT skills are practical exercises people can use between appointments to manage urges and reduce reactivity.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to tailor sessions to your needs and preferences as things change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, or travel. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits better into a break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief updates, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent despite a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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