About Kristin
Dr. Kristin Good is a California psychologist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship struggles, grief, and trauma. She works in English and Spanish and focuses on practical changes that improve everyday life.
Her approach centers on the person's priorities and goals. She has 24 years of clinical experience and brings a client-centered attitude to sessions. That means she listens first, then helps people name what matters most.
Background and approach
Together they set clear goals and practice skills that can be used outside of therapy. Her work draws on several evidence-based methods to match what a person needs. Sessions often include learning concrete tools for mood and worry, practicing coping skills, and talking through painful memories in a paced way.
The emphasis is on useful steps rather than long lectures. Dr. Good aims to help people build self-understanding and self-compassion.
She frames problems as chances to grow and teaches techniques that reduce suffering and increase resilience. Clients learn ways to handle daily challenges and to move from surviving toward thriving. People who choose her often want straightforward guidance, practical skill-building, and a collaborative relationship.
She supports adults facing life transitions, chronic stress, emotional pain, and attention-related difficulties. Sessions are tailored to fit each person’s situation and goals.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a collaborative relationship. The therapist follows the person's lead, helps set priorities, and supports practical goal-setting and skill practice useful for everyday stress, relationships, and mood concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and attention-related difficulties by practicing new strategies and homework between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. These skills can help people manage intense emotions, reduce impulsive behavior, and improve relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review a person's needs, goals, and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. Decisions about technique are made collaboratively and can be adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is well suited for full sessions and skills practice, phone can work for check-ins or when bandwidth is low, and messaging or chat can support brief check-ins, coaching, or reminders between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit therapy into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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