About Cristina
Cristina Kroeze is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Wisconsin with over 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people through relationship strain, family conflict, grief, and big life changes. Her work often addresses parenting challenges and the emotional shifts that come with pregnancy, postpartum, midlife, and aging.
Cristina takes a warm, compassionate approach rooted in understanding each person’s story. She creates a calm space where people can name what feels hard and try new ways of handling it.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to center on improving communication and building practical coping skills for daily life. Many clients come with problems like loneliness, trouble connecting, or questions about life purpose. Cristina helps people sort through those feelings and find steps forward that fit their values.
She also supports those dealing with infidelity, separation, blended family issues, and the stresses of caregiving. Her work is influenced by Christian values and respect for each individual’s beliefs. That perspective can shape conversations about meaning, forgiveness, and hope when clients want it.
Cristina aims to walk alongside people rather than direct them, offering steady support as they make changes. Therapy with Cristina blends practical tools and reflective conversation. She helps clients strengthen relationships, manage anxiety related to social situations, and process grief or major transitions.
Sessions are meant to be collaborative, paced to the client’s needs, and focused on workable steps toward feeling better.
Evidence-based approaches for online relationship and life work
Many clients find benefit from approaches that focus on present-day interactions and practical change. One common evidence-based technique emphasizes improving communication skills and patterns in relationships, helping people speak more clearly, listen better, and reduce repeated conflict. This approach is useful for couples or individuals trying to navigate infidelity, separation, blended family challenges, or ongoing communication problems.Another useful method centers on coping skills for anxiety and major life changes. It teaches short exercises for managing intense emotions, reducing social anxiety symptoms, and handling grief or the stress of new parenting. These tools are meant to be simple to use between sessions so progress can continue outside the appointment time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative process helps match techniques to the client’s values and daily life.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief updates, reflections, or between-session contact that fits a busy schedule. Together these options make ongoing care easier to fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English