About Kristine
Kristine Gustafson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, straightforward approach for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life transitions. She blends practical methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with client-centered and mindfulness practices.
Sessions focus on clear goals and everyday strategies that can be used between meetings. The aim is to reduce symptoms and build sustainable routines for coping.
Background and approach
Kristine has worked with people facing trauma, addiction, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with relationship concerns, career stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, and attention-related challenges. Her background includes work across many life stages and health situations in Missouri.
In sessions she listens for what matters most to each person, then co-creates a plan that fits their life. Techniques may include thinking skills from CBT, values-based work from ACT, and mindfulness exercises to manage intense moments. She encourages small, doable steps toward change.
Her style is warm and direct. People can expect practical tools, space to talk through painful topics, and support for setting realistic goals. Her approach is designed to help people regain a sense of control and move forward at their own pace.
How therapy approaches adapt to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Online ACT often uses short exercises and weekly goals to help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. In virtual sessions CBT can include thought records, behavior experiments, and practical homework that people complete between meetings to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship. That approach supports emotional processing and can help people feel heard while they work through grief, relationship strain, or caregiving stress.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Kristine will discuss goals, preferences, and daily routines to decide which approaches to try first. She adapts tools over time based on what helps the person make steady progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging are useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using ACT, CBT, and client-centered work effectively.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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