About Kristen
Kristen Sims is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has spent 16 years helping people navigate difficult life moments. She brings a calm, practical approach to sessions and focuses on making therapy understandable and useful. Kristen practices in Florida and offers services in English.
Kristen helps people deal with stress and anxiety, as well as mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, grief, addiction-related struggles, and panic attacks.
Background and approach
Relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and communication problems are regular topics in her work. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She works with each person to set clear goals and to find realistic steps toward them.
Sessions aim to be a place for honest conversation and steady problem solving rather than jargon or unclear instructions. Kristen pays attention to patterns that can underlie problems, such as attachment wounds, abandonment fears, control issues, and shame. She also addresses compassion fatigue, isolation, and challenges tied to end-of-life and hospice situations.
Practical coping skills and emotional processing are balanced in her approach. Online and phone sessions are part of her offering. People may use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits their schedule.
Kristen encourages a collaborative pace so each person can find what works best for them.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Kristen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One common approach helps people learn concrete coping skills to manage anxiety, panic, and mood swings; sessions practice these skills and build routines to use between meetings. Another approach emphasizes processing traumatic or painful memories slowly and safely, helping reduce their hold on daily life while teaching emotional regulation strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristen collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs and goals. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or setbacks appear, so therapy stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to fit short updates or reflections into a busy day. These options offer flexibility for people balancing work, family, or mobility limits while keeping focus on meaningful progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English