About Kristy
Kristy Groves is a licensed clinical social worker in Missouri who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She supports work on self-esteem, grief, parenting challenges, sleep and eating issues, and problems that come with major life changes. Kristy also addresses ADHD, compassion fatigue, and concerns specific to LGBT and young adult issues.
Kristy takes a straightforward, person-centered approach. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes that fit into everyday life. She aims to make the work feel doable rather than overwhelming. Her background includes five years working as a licensed clinician in therapy settings.
Kristy combines methods that teach skills and change thinking with approaches that increase acceptance and present-moment awareness. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, mindfulness, and client-centered techniques to tailor the work to a person’s needs. In sessions she helps people set clear goals and practice hands-on tools between meetings.
That might mean identifying unhelpful thoughts, learning emotion regulation skills, or trying small behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping. She also uses motivational strategies when someone needs help with change. People who connect with Kristy can expect calm, practical guidance and a focus on real-life progress.
Her aim is to help people feel more capable and move forward at a pace that fits their lives.
Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Kristy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online work. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, insomnia, and problems with motivation. ACT focuses on values and acceptance while teaching tools to reduce the struggle with painful thoughts and emotions; it can help with chronic stress, mood issues, and improving life direction.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kristy will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That collaboration helps shape session pace, which skills to learn first, and how to practice new habits between meetings.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing new skills. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free option is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, short exercises, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English