About Kristine
Kristine Edstrom is a licensed professional clinical counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She focuses on real concerns like anger, relationship strain, low self-esteem, addiction, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Kristine speaks plainly and aims to make starting therapy feel manageable instead of overwhelming.
Her approach centers on building a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
She uses methods that help people notice unhelpful patterns, practice new skills, and try small changes between sessions. Conversations are practical and goal-oriented when needed, and reflective when that feels more useful. Kristine draws from client-centered work to keep sessions grounded in the person’s own goals.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to break down problems into clear steps and dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness practices and trauma-focused tools are added when they fit the situation. With nine years of experience and the credential LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor), she brings steady clinical experience and an easy manner.
Her practice is based in Minnesota and sessions are offered in English. Kristine encourages small first steps and helps clients build coping tools they can use day to day. She aims to make therapy feel like a practical partnership focused on progress rather than perfection.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Kristine commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy means the therapist follows the client's lead, listens closely, and helps people build goals that matter to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into specific thoughts and behaviors and teaches steps to change them, which fits well into short exercises or between-session practice.She also brings in dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when people need tools to manage intense feelings. DBT skills can be practiced in sessions and reinforced with text or chat check-ins to help build habits over time. Kristine will work collaboratively to choose the mix of approaches that best fits each person's needs, goals, and preferences rather than pushing a single method.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text are useful for brief check-ins or practicing skills between meetings. These options aim to make scheduling easier and let therapy fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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