About Kristen
Kristen Lewis is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience. She focuses on trauma, LGBTQ issues, parenting concerns, anxiety, and life transitions. Kristen believes people know their story best and brings a steady, respectful presence to sessions.
She uses practical, person-focused methods to help people handle stress, grief, addiction, and relationship struggles. Sessions aim to uncover strengths and build steps that feel doable. Kristen listens for patterns that keep clients stuck and helps them try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her background includes work across community and clinical settings in North Carolina and Virginia. That experience informs how she tailors support to each person’s situation. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current feelings and choices.
Kristen often blends conversational, skills-based, and reflective work depending on what a person needs. For someone facing burnout, she might focus on small, steady changes. For trauma, she moves carefully and follows each person’s pace.
People who come for coaching, career questions, or help with self-esteem find concrete tools and encouragement. Kristen helps people talk through parenting stress, intimacy worries, and identity questions with straightforward feedback and practical next steps. She aims to make progress feel realistic and sustainable.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Kristen commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered Therapy means the person’s goals guide each conversation and the therapist follows their lead to build helpful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to ease anxiety, depression, or stress.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing when someone needs help finding their own reasons to change. That approach uses guided questions and support to boost motivation and set achievable goals. The therapist and client decide together which methods to use based on needs, goals, and what feels comfortable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use written reflection when that works better for them.
Kristen treats finding the right approach as part of the work. She will talk through options and adjust methods as progress is made so therapy stays practical and aligned with each person’s life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English