About Krista
Krista Arrington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with three decades of experience in community-based and school settings. She focuses on practical change through collaborative goal setting and problem solving. Her approach is direct, respectful, and grounded in real-life needs.
Krista helps people facing immediate challenges and those pursuing personal growth. She emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as the engine for change. In sessions she identifies patterns that no longer serve a person and works with them to develop new responses.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward techniques and occasional humor to keep work feelable and doable. Krista commonly helps with relationship and family tensions, parenting stresses, grief and loss, and emotional effects of life transitions. She also supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, sleep problems, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family concerns, caregiver strain, and hospice or end-of-life counseling. Her methods draw on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness practices, combined with family systems ideas when helpful. She adapts tools to each person’s situation and measures progress with clear steps and check-ins.
Sessions emphasize skills that can be used between meetings to make daily life easier. Krista works from California and conducts sessions in English. She has substantial experience supporting parents and people connected to special education and neurodiverse learners.
Her practical, compassionate style aims to help clients tackle current problems and build steady habits for long-term wellbeing.
How CBT and Mindfulness Work Online
Krista uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try out small behavioral experiments. This approach breaks problems into concrete steps and teaches skills for managing mood, anxiety, sleep, and daily routines.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness practices in sessions include brief breathing exercises and attention-training that clients can practice between meetings to lower stress and improve sleep.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan together until it fits the client’s needs and preferences. That way each person gets a mix of CBT, mindfulness, or other practical strategies that makes sense for them.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text help people stay connected between sessions and share updates or brief coaching in writing. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit into busy schedules and everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English