About Kristena
Kristena Partridge is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing relationship strain, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, career uncertainty, depression, stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and compassion fatigue. She works with people on practical steps for coping with life changes and rebuilding confidence. Kristena's tone is encouraging and straightforward, aimed at people who feel stuck and unsure where to begin.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Background and approach
Kristena focuses on strengths people already have and helps them apply those strengths to current problems. Sessions typically involve talking through recent struggles, identifying small goals, and practicing doable changes between meetings. Kristena draws on five years of clinical experience and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW.
She practices from Tennessee and offers services in English. Her background includes work with people affected by trauma and grief as well as those coping with chronic illness and life transitions. Common concerns she addresses include attachment and abandonment worries, codependency and commitment issues, control and dependent personality patterns, and challenges related to autism spectrum presentations and intellectual disability.
She also supports people dealing with chronic pain, illness, or disability who want tools to manage daily life. Her approach is direct and collaborative. Kristena helps clients set clear, manageable goals and tries to keep session plans simple.
She encourages practical strategies that fit a person’s life and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Kristena uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people tackle relationship and emotional challenges. One common approach focuses on understanding attachment patterns - it looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people try different ways of relating. This can be useful for intimacy concerns, jealousy, and abandonment worries.Another frequently used method emphasizes practical skills and goal-setting. Sessions identify small, concrete steps clients can try between meetings to build confidence and reduce anxiety. That approach is helpful for stress, depression, career uncertainty, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit a person’s needs and preferences, and adjust as progress is made. Clients and the therapist work together to pick strategies that feel manageable and relevant to daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use body language and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English