About Kristie
Kristie Preston is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who helps people manage ADHD along with stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She focuses on practical support for self-esteem, parenting challenges, relationships, career decisions, and grief. Her style is straightforward and collaborative, aimed at helping clients build skills they can use day to day.
Kristie draws from client-centered and solution-focused work to keep sessions grounded and goal-oriented.
Background and approach
She pairs those approaches with cognitive behavioral ideas and motivational interviewing to help people shift unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. Sessions tend to focus on clear steps and what works in the client’s life right now. Her background includes a decade of experience as a practicing therapist and additional work mentoring clinical leaders and providing professional coaching.
That mix gives her familiarity with both direct client care and practical coaching strategies for career and leadership concerns. She uses that experience to help people set realistic goals and track progress. Kristie emphasizes collaboration.
She asks questions, listens closely, and helps people identify small changes that add up. Parents who are juggling many responsibilities may find short, concrete strategies especially useful. People who choose to work with her can expect a warm, pragmatic approach.
She helps clients test small shifts, reflect on what works, and adjust plans as needed. Her focus includes life purpose and rebuilding routines that support daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kristie uses client-centered therapy to create a listening space where the client's priorities set the agenda; this helps people feel heard and shapes goals that matter to them. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into patterns of thoughts and behaviors and offers concrete experiments to change them. These approaches are useful for ADHD-related challenges, anxiety, mood shifts, and practical life problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristie will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences, adjusting plans as progress is made. She checks in regularly to see what’s working and what should change so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and body language cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text can be used for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or in-between-session support. These options let clients fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between visits.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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