About Chrystal
Chrystal Westbrook is a licensed professional counselor who draws on 13 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She meets people where they are and helps them build practical skills for everyday life. Her work focuses on improving relationships, managing anxiety and stress, and addressing intimacy and sexual concerns.
She often helps partners rebuild trust and improve communication so they can connect more effectively. Chrystal also supports people working through depression, grief, addictive behaviors, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She addresses body image, chronic pain and illness, and challenges that come with caregiving and blended families. Chrystal uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods. Clients can expect a blend of cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness-based strategies.
She also integrates emotionally-focused ideas to help with attachment and connection in relationships. Sessions are described by Chrystal as warm and nonjudgmental. She aims to create a space where people can talk openly and try new coping techniques.
The therapist adapts each plan to match a person’s specific needs and goals. Beyond couples and intimacy work, Chrystal brings experience with multicultural concerns, LGBT and gender-related issues, polyamory and alternative sex cultures, and veteran-related topics. Her practice also includes support for dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and midlife transitions.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Relationship and Life Work
Chrystal commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Chrystal discusses goals and preferences with each person and then suggests strategies to try. This collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits your situation and changes as you progress.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats help fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English