About Kristen
Kristen Boisrond is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns. She supports those facing grief, losses, and major life changes. Kristen aims to make the first step feel manageable for people who are unsure where to begin.
Kristen holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and has seven years of professional experience. She draws on practical, evidence-based techniques to help people build coping skills and strengthen self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and real steps clients can try between meetings. Her work includes helping people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, cancer and hospice situations, caregiver strain, and family of origin problems. She also supports those navigating divorce, infidelity, hoarding concerns, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Communication difficulties and life-purpose questions are other common topics she addresses. Kristen offers sessions that fit different needs, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She is licensed in Texas and Louisiana and provides services in English.
Her background includes hands-on clinical work across varied settings, which she uses to tailor support to each person's situation. When a person starts, Kristen works collaboratively to set goals and choose practical strategies. She emphasizes small, achievable steps and regular check-ins to track progress.
The overall aim is to help people feel more able to handle daily stresses and make clearer choices about their next steps.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Kristen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem solving. One common approach emphasizes building coping skills for stress and anxiety through step-by-step strategies that can be practiced between sessions. This helps when symptoms feel overwhelming and you want concrete ways to manage day-to-day challenges.Another frequently used method focuses on grief and loss by helping people name what they are feeling and work through practical tasks tied to adjustment. This approach supports people through transitions such as illness, bereavement, or other major life changes by breaking larger problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristen collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods as progress is made so the plan fits how someone actually responds to treatment.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and when shorter, more frequent contact helps maintain momentum.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Louisiana
- Languages
- English