About Kristy-Lee
Kristy-Lee Dawson is an ACA counsellor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, practical support for relationship worries, grief, parenting strain and related family concerns. Her approach suits people who want clear tools and steady guidance.
Kristy-Lee listens first and works at each person's pace. She draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to teach skills that can be used between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on realistic steps you can try at home and on improving everyday coping. Her style is client-centred, which means conversations follow what matters most to you. She also uses elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when emotion regulation or connection issues are part of the picture.
The aim is to make therapy practical and relevant to daily life. With nine years of experience Kristy-Lee has supported people facing family of origin issues, separation, communication problems, chronic illness and caregiver stress. She also addresses concerns linked to adoption, attachment and ageing.
She practises in Australia and conducts sessions in English. People who choose her often want structured tools plus time to reflect. If you prefer a straightforward, empathetic counsellor who offers skills, Kristy-Lee may be a good fit.
She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small, committed actions that move your life forward, which can be useful for anxiety and ongoing stress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and gives practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety and problem-solving in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kristy-Lee will talk with you about your goals and preferences and tailor methods that fit your situation. That collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT or elements of emotion-focused or skills-based work suit you best.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the process. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, mood tracking or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing family, work and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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