About Kirsten
Kirsten Dagrosa helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship troubles, and low self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Kirsten is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - based in New York and she brings five years of clinical experience to her work.
Kirsten offers a straightforward, team-based approach. She listens without judgment and asks direct questions to clarify what matters to each person.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps that can be used between meetings to ease symptoms and make small changes that add up over time. Many clients come with concerns about attachment, codependency, communication problems, control issues, or isolation. Kirsten also addresses multicultural concerns, prejudice and discrimination, and questions about life purpose.
She helps people unpack guilt, shame, forgiveness, and the emptiness that can follow big transitions. For those balancing faith with therapy, Kirsten is open about integrating personal spiritual values into conversations when clients want that. She aims to respect each person’s beliefs while keeping goals clear and achievable.
The work is collaborative, with the client’s priorities guiding the plan. Typical sessions mix talking, practical exercises, and focused reflection. Kirsten can support career-related stress, social anxiety and phobias, and recovery from domestic violence or post-traumatic stress.
Her focus is on helping people find manageable ways forward and steadying daily life so goals become reachable.
Approaches that guide online work and practical support
Many clients benefit from straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on thoughts, behaviors, and relationships. Cognitive approaches help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more useful ways of interpreting situations; this is useful for anxiety, depression, and social fears. Trauma-informed methods focus on stabilizing symptoms, building coping skills, and processing difficult memories at a pace that feels manageable, which helps people recovering from abuse or post-traumatic stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past experiences and then recommend techniques that fit their needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what is not, so clients help shape their own path forward.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging supports quick reflections between sessions or ongoing emotional support. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, a caregiving schedule, or other commitments while keeping focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English