About Kristyn
Kristyn Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California who helps people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing low mood, relationship strain, anger, parenting stress, and major life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Her practice blends approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and acceptance strategies. Sessions usually focus on small, manageable goals. She encourages clients to notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding in daily life.
Background and approach
Kristyn also attends to more complex or long-standing concerns such as bipolar mood patterns, trauma and abuse, and chronic health-related stress. She values a team approach when needed and coordinates with other professionals to address medical or psychiatric concerns. This helps make treatment more complete when problems involve many areas of life.
She aims to build a trusting relationship where people feel heard and respected. Treatment plans are tailored to each person’s situation, drawing on both short-term coping skills and longer-term strategies for growth. With five years of clinical experience, Kristyn combines practical strategies with a hopeful outlook.
She supports clients who want concrete tools to manage anxiety and stress while working toward clearer goals and better daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them and then move toward what matters most. It is useful for chronic worry, avoidance, and stress that interferes with daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood. It is often used for worry, panic, and mood shifts.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up in everyday life, then try methods that seem most likely to help. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills work and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and texting work well for brief check-ins, homework prompts, or when typing helps people organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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