About Kristen
Dr. Kristen Rumley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of clinical experience. She served eight years on active duty in the U.S.
Air Force before moving into civilian practice. Dr. Rumley practices from Texas and brings long experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions.
Her background includes many years working with first responders and those affected by disasters. She has also helped people dealing with relationship concerns, attachment questions, and boundary setting.
Background and approach
Her work includes focus on addiction, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, and career or coaching questions. In sessions she aims for an open, nonjudgmental tone. She centers the relationship and encourages clients to notice strengths they already have.
She describes herself as genuine and straightforward and uses that style to help people reframe patterns and try small changes. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. Those methods are used to look at how past experiences shape current feelings and to build practical steps forward.
Dr. Rumley prefers video sessions but is also available by phone, live chat, and text-based messaging through the subscription model. She practices under Texas licensure as an LCSW and brings two decades of experience to guided, goal-focused conversations.
Therapies that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current bonds and trust. In online sessions this approach can help with intimacy, abandonment concerns, and communication patterns by tracking how clients react in relationships and practicing new responses.Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what a person says. It helps people feel heard and acknowledged and supports work on self-esteem, decision making, and coping with life changes.
Mindfulness therapy teaches ways to notice thoughts and bodily signals without getting swept away by them. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Plans are adjusted over time based on how the client responds and what proves useful in day-to-day life.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is useful when visual cues matter and longer conversations are needed. Phone can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging offer quick check-ins and written reflection between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep consistent progress while balancing other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Texas, Connecticut
- Languages
- English