About Kristl
Kristl Bray is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of practice. She offers care that centers on respect and acceptance while helping people face anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Kristl works with clients who are exploring identity, managing stress, or rebuilding after losses.
Her style blends practical skills and emotional understanding. She uses methods that teach coping tools and help people notice what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, concrete steps that fit daily life. Kristl has long experience supporting people through relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and career transitions. She also addresses challenges such as addiction, ADHD, bipolar mood shifts, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue.
Her practice includes work around abandonment, attachment, and blended family issues. She draws on several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, cognitive methods, and dialectical skills. That mix helps with both immediate coping and longer-term change.
Kristl sees clients from Montana and also accepts international clients. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She holds MT LCSW BBH-LCSW-LIC-72689 and UT LCSW 293034-3501.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward a life that matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. These approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life transitions. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs. Over time they adjust the plan based on what helps most, combining practical skills with reflective work when useful. Online therapy offers flexible options to fit daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn't wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or someone who prefers writing to speaking. These formats make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on clear, manageable steps toward change.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Montana
- Languages
- English