About Kristina
Kristina Malley is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She offers a calm, approachable style and aims to make the first step into therapy easier. Sessions use messaging, phone, or video so people can pick what feels most comfortable.
She takes a practical, down-to-earth approach. Kristina works with individuals on issues such as depression, mood disorders, relationship struggles, self-esteem, grief, and addictions. Together clients set short- and long-term goals and identify steps to reach them.
Background and approach
She emphasizes building a strong working relationship and recognizing personal strengths. Kristina uses tools from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, dialectical behavior strategies, and solution-focused methods. She helps clients learn skills for emotional regulation, coping with life changes, and improving communication.
Sessions often include concrete techniques people can try between meetings. Her background includes a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Immaculata University and over 11 years of experience in the mental health field. She holds the LPC credential and has worked with people who have clinically diagnosed disorders.
Kristina also has experience supporting issues around caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and blended family concerns. Kristina practices from Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English. She does not work with clients outside the United States.
Therapy is offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the platform's matching and booking process.
Approaches that translate to online care
Kristina draws on client-centered work that focuses on listening, building trust, and helping people set goals that matter to them. This approach helps when someone needs support naming strengths and deciding what to change.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Practical exercises and thought records are common tools that people can use between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques add skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and managing intense feelings, which can be useful for mood disorders and high stress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kristina will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made and problems change.
Online therapy offers a range of ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone calls work when a lower bandwidth option is needed, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging allows short updates or reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats until the best fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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