About Kristy
Kristy Groves is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Missouri who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, addictions, and ADHD. She works with issues around self-esteem, motivation, relationships, grief, and life transitions. Her approach is straightforward and supportive for people taking a first step toward change.
Kristy views the person as the expert in their own life. She focuses on building strengths and practical skills that make day-to-day life more manageable.
Background and approach
Conversations are aimed at clear goals, small steps, and realistic strategies rather than long lectures. She uses a mix of methods that fit each person’s needs, including talk-based work and exercises to practice between sessions. Sessions often include looking at thoughts and behaviors, noticing patterns, and learning new coping skills.
Mindfulness techniques and values-based choices are commonly woven into the work. With five years as a licensed clinician, Kristy draws on real-world experience to keep therapy grounded and useful. She aims to make sessions feel collaborative and respectful, helping people try new ways of managing emotions and daily demands.
People who want to focus on managing mood, reducing anxiety, improving sleep, or addressing substance concerns may find her approach practical and action-oriented. Kristy supports steps toward clearer communication, better self-care, and stronger routines that fit a client’s life.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Kristy uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which helps with anxiety, mood, sleep, and addictive patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions in line with those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kristy treats treatment style as a team decision and will help you try methods that match your goals, preferences, and daily demands. She adjusts tools and pacing based on what works for each person rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can work for quick check-ins or shorter tools between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice skills in real life while keeping momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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