About Kristel
Kristel Avilus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings seven years of experience to each session. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her manner is warm and direct, aimed at making conversations feel straightforward and useful.
Kristel uses practical strategies from approaches such as cognitive behavioral work and client-centered care. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavioral changes, and name what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for sleep, anger, and emotion regulation, and concrete steps for coping with life changes or caregiving strain. Many people come with histories of abuse, grief, or addiction, and Kristel helps them untangle how those experiences affect day-to-day life. She also supports people facing workplace stress, parenting challenges, ADHD-related struggles, and issues around intimacy or self-esteem.
Her aim is to reduce overwhelm and increase clarity about next steps. Her style is collaborative rather than prescriptive. She listens first, then offers tools and exercises tailored to what a person says is most important.
Treatment plans are adjusted as progress unfolds. Kristel practices in Florida and works in English. She accepts international clients and uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to meet different needs.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect people to a session rhythm that fits their life.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small, meaningful steps even when unpleasant feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep trouble. It often includes simple experiments and practical homework between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try approaches that fit those goals. Together they will adjust techniques over time so the plan stays relevant and helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a shorter interaction fits into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English