About Kristina
Kristina Mattingly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Indiana with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, relationship difficulties, trauma, and ADHD. Her manner is relaxed, supportive, and nonjudgmental to help people feel comfortable speaking honestly.
Kristina aims to build a collaborative relationship where clients set priorities. She meets people where they are and tailors conversations and goals to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
That means sessions mix practical skills, problem solving, and time to process feelings. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to improve emotion regulation and reduce intense reactions.
Mindfulness tools help clients notice the present moment and manage stress. Kristina also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to set achievable goals and keep progress moving. She supports people working through grief, addiction, body image concerns, fertility stress, caregiver burnout, and blending family issues.
Her approach is flexible to address whatever concern someone brings. Sessions are offered through several online formats to fit busy lives. People who reach out complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule appointments based on the therapist’s availability.
Kristina aims to support each person as they take steps toward more balance and well-being.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kristina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical ways to test new thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress when situations feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend approaches to try. Sessions can change over time as needs shift, and techniques are adapted to what works for the individual.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill demonstrations, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, live chat offers a written back-and-forth for focused topics, and ongoing text messaging supports brief check-ins and progress tracking. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping the work on real goals and skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English