About Kristine
Dr. Kristine (Kristy) Eaton is a licensed clinical social worker in Indiana with 30 years of experience in mental health. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, parenting concerns, and self-esteem.
She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and respectful. Her approach is straightforward and warm. She creates a calm space where people can talk about difficult feelings without judgment.
Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and on practical steps to feel better day to day.
Background and approach
Over three decades of practice have given her a wide view of common struggles. She has worked with issues related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and family of origin problems. Communication difficulties, codependency, guilt and shame, and infidelity are also within her experience.
Her work draws on several clinical approaches. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s lead. She applies cognitive behavioral tools to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness and dialectical skills are used to build emotion regulation and tolerance. In sessions she listens first and helps people set clear, realistic goals. She also uses motivational interviewing techniques to support change and strengthen commitment.
The focus is on small, achievable steps that fit a person’s life and values.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Dr. Eaton uses client-centered work to build sessions around each person’s priorities and pace. That means initial sessions focus on listening and understanding what the client wants to change or feel differently, so therapy fits their life and goals.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and often pairs well with online tools like worksheets or between-session practice. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are added when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or interpersonal effectiveness are needed. Those skills can be taught in short exercises during video or text check-ins.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She discusses options and tailors methods to the client’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than applying one fixed model. Clients and therapist check in regularly and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for full sessions with visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief ongoing contact and reminders. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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