About Kyria
Kyria Chrisp-Stashak is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alaska. She draws on ten years of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. Kyria meets clients with a calm, straightforward manner and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and depression. Kyria also supports those coping with addictions, identity and LGBT concerns, and challenges around intimacy and parenting.
Background and approach
She works with people facing life changes and offers help for issues like abandonment, attachment wounds, and isolation. In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about plainly. Conversations move at a pace set by the client, and she balances listening with clear suggestions for coping and problem solving.
Practical tools and small experiments are often used so clients can try new ways of handling stress between appointments. Kyria draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person's needs. She pays attention to cultural background and life history when framing concerns.
The goal is steady progress toward clearer thinking, improved communication, and better day-to-day coping. People who choose Kyria can expect direct feedback, collaborative goal-setting, and flexibility in how they meet. Her approach is aimed at helping clients feel understood and to build skills that fit real life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Two evidence-based techniques often used in her work are skills-based coping and trauma-informed talk. Skills-based coping teaches concrete strategies for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing, behavioral experiments, and activity planning to reduce avoidance. Trauma-informed talk focuses on keeping the client in control of the pace while addressing painful memories and reactions in ways that reduce re-triggering.Another common element is attention to relationships and communication. This involves looking at patterns in how people connect, practicing new ways to express needs, and rehearsing conversations so interactions at home go more smoothly. These approaches are applied practically and adjusted to each person's situation.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify goals and try techniques that match the client's needs and preferences. If something isn’t helpful, methods are changed or adapted until a workable path forward is found.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is useful for in-depth weekly sessions, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum even when life is crowded.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English
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