About Kristina
Kristina Marchese is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, anger, and self-esteem struggles. She meets people where they are and helps them build steady, manageable steps forward.
Kristina uses plain talk and practical tools to help people reduce overwhelming reactions. Sessions often start with what feels most urgent, whether that is panic, intrusive thoughts, or trouble sleeping.
Background and approach
She helps people notice patterns, try small changes, and practice new ways of coping between sessions. Her background centers on trauma-related work and its ripple effects on daily life. She describes trauma like a pebble thrown into a pond - the original event may be brief, but the aftershocks touch many areas.
She supports people in identifying those ripple effects and reclaiming a sense of balance and control. Kristina pays attention to how guilt, shame, and self-blame get in the way of healing. She also helps with worry linked to panic attacks, life transitions, relationship communications, and body image struggles.
Conversations include practical strategies and space to process painful memories at a pace that feels tolerable. People who prefer straightforward guidance and gradual change tend to fit well with her style. She works with clear goals and keeps each session focused on usable steps.
Her practice is based in Arizona, and she offers services in English.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Kristina draws on several evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people manage anxiety and trauma. One approach focuses on steady exposure to feared thoughts or sensations in small, controlled steps to reduce panic and avoidance. This helps people build confidence that anxiety can be tolerated and will lessen over time.Another approach teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving daily routines. Skills may include breath and grounding exercises, behavior experiments, and short practice tasks to use between sessions. These tools aim to reduce symptoms like intrusive thoughts, sleep disruption, and overwhelming anger.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a team effort. Kristina works collaboratively to decide which techniques best fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy makes these approaches more accessible. Video calls allow for a near face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels with remote sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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