About Kristine
Kristine Bartos is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who draws on several therapy styles to help people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical skill building and clear goals. Her approach feels warm and encouraging while staying action-oriented.
Kristine centers much of her work on cognitive behavioral ideas. She helps people spot how thoughts, feelings, and actions feed each other and then practice different choices to break unhelpful cycles.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness practices to help with moment-to-moment awareness and calming skills. She brings psychodynamic ideas into sessions when it helps to look at earlier experiences that still affect current patterns. That background can make sense of why certain reactions keep repeating and guide changes that feel lasting.
Motivational interviewing shows up when people need support finding reasons to change and building momentum. Kristine earned a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University and holds a Florida LCSW.
She has three years of clinical experience working with adults in medical and counseling settings, including crisis intervention and support for anxiety, depression, trauma, substance concerns, and adjustment to major medical issues. People who prefer a mix of structured skill teaching and compassionate listening may find her style a good fit.
She works with clients to set clear steps, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Kristine commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thought-action patterns. That work often involves tracking reactions, testing different behaviors, and practicing new skills between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take small committed steps toward those values even when uncomfortable feelings are present. ACT can be useful for stress, worry, and making life changes that feel important but hard to start. Finding the right approach is a collaboration. Kristine will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they choose or blend methods and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online therapy makes these approaches accessible in different ways. Video calls let the therapist and client work through exercises and observe nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing coaching between sessions, quick symptom checks, and support when implementing new skills in daily life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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