About Kristin
Kristin Pacello is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, and related concerns. She draws on a decade of professional experience and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Kristin speaks plain language and keeps the work straightforward and focused on the problems you bring.
She views each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Kristin offers steady guidance while people try new ways of coping. Sessions aim to make things clearer and more manageable, not more confusing. Her approach emphasizes small, realistic changes that fit into daily life.
Kristin helps people practice skills, notice what works, and adjust plans that aren’t helping. She supports people through big life changes, chronic stress, and the aftermath of abuse or loss. Kristin also works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood issues, compassion fatigue, and caregiving stress.
She addresses practical problems too, like communication breakdowns, blended family questions, and career strain. Her work includes helping with adoption and foster care related stress and attachment concerns. People who meet with Kristin can expect straightforward conversation, goal-focused planning, and an emphasis on using their own strengths.
She is licensed as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and has ten years of experience in the field. Kristin offers services in English and accepts international clients.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Kristin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world skills and clear goals. One common approach she uses helps people learn coping and emotion regulation skills through repeated practice and short exercises; this works well for anxiety, mood swings, and stress. Another approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of responding, which can reduce symptoms of depression and improve problem solving. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristin treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients try methods that fit their needs, goals, and daily life. She adjusts the plan based on what is useful and what is not, so the approach evolves with the person. Online sessions offer flexibility that many people need. Video calls let people use visual cues and engage in longer, focused conversations. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to get brief support between sessions or to fit short check-ins into a busy day. These options let people schedule care around work, caregiving, or other obligations while still accessing licensed professionals and structured therapeutic work.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English