About Kristine
Dr. Kristine (Kristy) Eaton is a licensed clinical social worker who brings three decades of mental health experience to her practice in Indiana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem.
Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things and find useful ways forward. Kristy creates a calm space where people can speak openly about their feelings.
Background and approach
She listens without judgment and helps clients sort through what matters most to them. Sessions are practical and respectful of each person’s pace. Over 30 years she has worked with a wide range of concerns including abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, body image, caregiver stress, and codependency.
She also addresses communication problems, guilt and shame, infidelity, and family of origin issues. Her clinical work draws on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches, plus mindfulness and motivational interviewing. Those methods are used to build awareness, shift unhelpful patterns, and strengthen coping skills.
Kristy aims to help people regain balance and feel more confident in daily life. She meets clients where they are and helps them set realistic steps toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to build trust and clarify what matters most, which can help with relationship stress and self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to shift unhelpful patterns, making it useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. It includes techniques for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness which can help in heated relationships and periods of intense overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that suit their needs and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is made so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging allows brief reflections between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English