About Kristy
Kristy Groves is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar symptoms, and issues with addictions. She focuses on practical steps that can reduce daily overwhelm and build confidence. She frames clients as the experts in their own lives and offers steady support while people try new ways of coping.
Kristy listens for what matters most in a person's story and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and direct. She helps clients set clear goals, practice new skills, and notice small changes that add up over time. Her approach blends techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy with client-centered and mindfulness practices.
That mix helps when someone is coping with trauma, grief, relationship strain, or recurring worry. Kristy also uses emotion regulation skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy when feelings feel intense or hard to manage. She has five years as a licensed clinical social worker and has worked in the helping professions for longer.
That background includes supporting people through life transitions, parenting stresses, career concerns, and challenges related to identity and relationships. Her work also covers areas such as body image, attachment concerns, sexual assault and abuse, and compassion fatigue. Kristy aims for clear, usable strategies rather than long explanations.
She encourages small experiments between sessions and checks what does and does not work. The pace and focus are set together so care fits each person's life and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions even when strong emotions are present. It helps people move toward a life they value while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy makes space for the client's perspective and emphasizes empathy and respect as people work through difficult choices.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about what feels most helpful, try techniques, and adjust based on goals and preferences. That process is collaborative so the plan fits the client's needs over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial cues and do skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be good for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for different schedules and lifestyles while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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