Works with
- Anger
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
How Kristen works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 27
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Kristen
Kristen Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, and relationship concerns. She prioritizes a calm, practical approach so a worried parent can quickly see what to expect.
Kristen believes clients are the experts on their own lives. She listens first, then offers tools that fit each person’s needs. Sessions aim to build skills for everyday challenges like stress, sleep trouble, or low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term clinical work supporting people through trauma, grief, and major life changes. She also helps with intimacy-related issues, career strain, caregiving stress, and neurodiverse concerns such as autism and ADHD. Her experience includes working with eating, sleeping, and body-image problems, as well as complicated family-of-origin dynamics.
In therapy she uses Client-Centered methods alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques. That means conversations are collaborative, and the work includes practical skill-building to change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. Kristen offers straightforward strategies families can try between sessions.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Kristen works with adults navigating grief, recovery, parenting pressures, and relationship strain, helping people move toward steadier days.
What Kristen works with
Everything Kristen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Kristen's practice.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kristen lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Kristen uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the client's pace. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around their priorities and sense of what will help.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a hands-on approach she draws on to spot unhelpful thinking and try different, more useful responses. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many stress-related problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides concrete skills for regulating strong emotions and improving relationships. Kristen uses DBT techniques when clients need tools for anger, intense mood swings, or managing distress without harmful behaviors.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide what fits their goals and life. Together they test practical tools and adjust the plan as things change.
Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation when more depth is needed. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, short coaching, or ongoing practice of new skills between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and caregiving schedules.
Questions people ask about Kristen
What kinds of concerns does Kristen address?
She helps people with addictions, anger, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, and many related concerns listed on her profile.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens first, then works with clients to build skills and try simple tools between sessions.
What experience does she bring?
Kristen has 27 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma, caregiving stress, and life transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (FL LMHC) and practices in Florida.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.