About Kristina
Kristina Marquez is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Illinois. She holds the LCSW credential and brings five years of focused clinical experience. Kristina aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear for each person who reaches out.
She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with mood such as bipolar concerns. She also supports those coping with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Parenting strain, caregiver stress, adoption and foster care questions, and career or life-purpose decisions are also within her scope. Kristina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts conversations and plans to each person. Sessions focus on practical steps, improving coping skills, and building confidence.
She keeps language plain and focuses on concrete goals so progress can be tracked. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, with attention to each person’s unique history and needs. Kristina aims to empower people to make choices that match their values and long-term goals.
She encourages openness about what is working and what needs to change. Kristina offers sessions in English and provides therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling that fits both the client and therapist timing.
How evidence-based approaches work in online care
Kristina draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. For example, one approach emphasizes building coping skills and structured strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress; sessions teach straightforward tools and practice plans that can be used between meetings. Another approach targets processing traumatic experiences and difficult emotions through paced conversation and grounding exercises to reduce overwhelm and increase emotional control.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what proves most helpful. Clients help shape the pace, focus, and methods used in sessions so the work fits their needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared materials, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a camera is not wanted, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit care into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping focus on tangible progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English