About Kristina
Kristina Marquez is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with five years of clinical experience listed for this profile. She focuses on common struggles like stress and anxiety and offers steady support during hard moments. Her approach emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and straightforward conversation.
Kristina frames therapy as a collaborative process and aims to help people take the first steps toward change. In sessions she addresses issues such as addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and motivation.
Background and approach
She also helps people facing life changes, grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, anger, career questions, and caregiving strain. Kristina includes work with adoption and foster care matters and sexual assault and abuse when relevant. Her style is practical and tailored.
She shapes dialog and a treatment plan to match each person's needs rather than applying a one-size-fits-all method. She focuses on clear goals and small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable. Kristina describes therapy as a partnership where people build skills and decision-making confidence.
She offers direct guidance and emotional support while encouraging clients to try new coping strategies between sessions. Clients can expect a calm, compassionate presence that balances empathy with action. Kristina aims to empower people who want a more fulfilling and happier life by helping them identify priorities and move toward them.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Kristina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach emphasizes teaching coping skills and behavioral tools to reduce anxiety and manage stress. This kind of work breaks problems into steps people can practice day to day. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and difficult experiences through paced, supportive conversation that helps people make sense of their history and reduce its hold on current life.Finding the right method is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts plans as progress is made. Clients and therapist review what works and try different strategies together when needed.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy routines. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and face-to-face connection, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging formats support quick check-ins or steady support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, and family life while keeping continuity with a licensed therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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