How Kristen works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Kristen
Kristen Sims is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of practice in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, addiction concerns, grief, and anger. Kristen offers steady support and practical strategies for those facing life changes and intense emotions.
Her approach centers on clear communication and teamwork. She invites clients to set goals together and uses straightforward techniques to help people cope day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize manageable steps rather than overwhelming plans. Kristen often works with issues linked to trauma, panic, and mood disorders. She also helps people dealing with attention challenges, compassion fatigue, relationship and intimacy concerns, and parenting stress.
Her experience includes supporting people through hospice and end-of-life counseling and the complex feelings that come with loss. In therapy she pays attention to patterns like abandonment, attachment, control struggles, impulsivity, and social anxiety. She helps people name those patterns and try new ways of responding.
Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on actions they can take between sessions. Kristen conducts sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. She works in English and practices across Florida as a Florida LCSW.
To begin, she asks people to share their goals so she can tailor support to their needs.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Kristen draws on proven therapeutic techniques to help people manage strong emotions and life stress. One common approach focuses on understanding and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and depression and to improve daily functioning. Another approach addresses trauma-related reactions by helping people process distressing memories and learn grounding skills to lessen overwhelming feelings. These methods help with anger, panic, mood issues, and problems that follow hard experiences.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristen collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. She reviews options together and adjusts methods over time so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit busy lives. Video is helpful when visual connection matters, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing touchpoints between sessions. These formats increase flexibility and make it easier to maintain consistent progress.
Questions people ask about Kristen
What kinds of concerns does Kristen address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, anger, and related issues like panic, mood disorders, and relationship or parenting strain.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused with practical steps to manage emotions and behavior between meetings.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 16 years of clinical experience working with adults on a range of life and mental health concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida and listed as FL LCSW.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently taking international clients.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.