About Kristen
Kristen Rawls is a Kansas-licensed clinical social worker (LSCSW) with seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and depression. He meets clients where they are and focuses on clear, practical steps that fit daily life. Kristen uses a mix of approaches to guide sessions.
He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas are used to build tolerance for difficult feelings without getting overwhelmed.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative. Kristen listens first, then helps set short-term goals and simple, doable tools to practice between meetings. He tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs, whether that looks like working on sleep, relationships, parenting stress, or managing attention and focus concerns such as ADHD.
Kristen also brings experience addressing trauma, addiction, grief, and work-related compassion fatigue. He helps people facing life changes, attachment struggles, body image doubts, and issues around communication and commitment. The work often mixes skills practice with space to process painful memories.
People can expect straightforward language and a calm pace in sessions. Kristen encourages small, steady steps and checks in on what is working. If goals shift, the plan adapts to keep progress realistic and manageable.
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them, then choose actions that align with personal values. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety, and managing ongoing difficulties like attention and focus concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and breaking cycles that feed into low mood or anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and daily life, then recommend techniques to try. That process is collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or avoid needing a webcam. Live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or practicing short skills between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, caregiving, or school schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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