About Kristen
Kristen Barrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia. She brings five years of experience in mental health and focuses on practical ways to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and attention-related challenges like ADHD. She has worked in homes, hospitals, personal offices, and ran an outpatient day program for severe mental illness.
Those settings gave her experience with a wide range of concerns, from depression and anger to family conflict and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
She also has experience supporting people with intellectual or developmental disabilities and mild autism. Kristen aims to make sessions upbeat, positive, and supportive. She likes helping people build self-esteem and improve daily functioning.
Conversations are straightforward and goal oriented, with attention to what feels realistic for each person. Her approach begins with listening and building trust. She uses client-centered and solution-focused ideas to meet people where they are.
Cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness techniques are used to teach concrete skills for managing thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Kristen adapts her work to each person’s culture, background, and lifestyle. She blends newer evidence-based techniques with more classical counseling methods when helpful.
The focus is on clear goals, small steps, and practical change.
How client-centered and practical approaches work online
Kristen uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s goals and experiences. This means sessions begin with listening, reflecting, and shaping work around what matters most to the client. It helps when someone needs support to sort priorities and make a plan.She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to teach skills for changing unhelpful thoughts and habits. CBT offers clear tools for managing anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and attention-related struggles like ADHD. Mindfulness techniques are added to help calm the body and increase moment-to-moment awareness, useful for stress and emotional regulation.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the process stays practical and person-focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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