About Kristin
Kristin Malaer is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, life changes, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family concerns, and mood challenges. Kristin speaks English and offers sessions using several online formats.
Her background includes work in medical social work and clinical settings. She brings practical skills for helping people cope with chronic illness, caregiving strain, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
She also supports people handling attachment and abandonment issues, body image and self-esteem concerns, and first responder stress. Kristin uses clear, straightforward methods in sessions. She helps clients spot unhelpful thoughts, learn new coping skills, and practice emotional regulation.
Conversations focus on concrete steps people can try between sessions to feel steadier day to day. Her style is collaborative and respectful. She listens closely and adapts tools to fit each person’s goals and circumstances.
Kristin encourages accountability and building on strengths rather than creating dependence on therapy. Many people come for help with grief, trauma, communication problems, or patterns like codependency and control issues. Kristin blends approaches such as attachment-based work, cognitive strategies, and emotionally-focused techniques to match what each person needs.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching process is used to pair people with the right subscription plan and therapist. Scheduling follows the therapist’s availability and subscription terms.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on understanding how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice and change ways of relating to others and themselves, which can ease anxiety and improve connection.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills for stress, anxiety, and mood problems.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work through strong emotions to improve emotional processing and relationships. It can be useful for grief, trauma responses, and strengthening emotional awareness.
Kristin approaches choosing methods as a joint process. She talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailors techniques accordingly. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility around work, caregiving, and travel. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face; phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers audio only. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, reflections between sessions, and ongoing skill practice. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days while still using evidence-based approaches.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English