About Kristi
Kristi Kangas offers straightforward support for adults coping with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, sleep problems, depression, and ADHD. She presents a calm, practical presence and focuses on simple steps people can use right away. Kristi has 20 years of experience and holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential.
She is based in Nevada and speaks English. Kristi aims to make sessions feel manageable. She helps people break big problems into small, concrete tasks.
Background and approach
Conversations often center on coping strategies, improving daily routines, and clearer communication. She also addresses sleep struggles and feelings that sap energy and motivation. Her background includes long experience working with mood disorders, panic and phobias, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and issues tied to chronic pain and illness.
She supports people dealing with isolation, midlife shifts, and questions about life purpose. Kristi also notes experience with aging and geriatric issues and with hearing impaired clients. In sessions she listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps design practical experiments to try between meetings.
Work may include planning, problem solving, and building small habits to change how daily life feels. The tone is collaborative and down-to-earth. Kristi is licensed in California and Nevada - CA LCSW 117040 and NV LCSW 9153-C - and brings two decades of practice to her work.
She offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging options to fit different schedules and needs.
Evidence-Based Techniques and Online Flexibility
Kristi draws on straightforward, evidence-based approaches that focus on changing thoughts, routines, and reactions. One common technique helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test more balanced ways of looking at situations; this often helps with anxiety, low mood, and stress. Another approach centers on behavior change and small habit-building - creating short experiments and practical routines to improve sleep, reduce panic, or manage chronic pain.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Kristi collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and daily life. She reviews what helps and adjusts the plan over time so the work stays useful and doable.
Online therapy makes this collaboration flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing, need quick check-ins, or want support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different formats to see what works best.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Nevada
- Languages
- English