About Kirsten
Kirsten King offers straightforward, compassionate care for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She is a licensed clinician with an MT LCPC credential and brings 23 years of experience to therapeutic conversations. Her manner is calm and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on helping people notice what matters and build practical skills to cope.
Kirsten uses a mix of proven methods to match each person's needs. She blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance-based and attachment-informed work to address symptoms and relationship patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions include clear, simple techniques people can try between meetings and space to talk about feelings and family history. She often supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting stress, grief, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem concerns. Additional focus areas include chronic pain or illness, codependency, communication problems, and gender dysphoria.
Kirsten also assists clients managing ADHD, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she helps people set realistic goals, practice new ways of thinking, and develop coping strategies. Conversations are paced to each person’s comfort level, with attention to both immediate relief and longer term patterns.
Practical homework and skill-building are used when helpful. Kirsten practices from Montana and conducts work in English. She offers multiple online session formats for flexibility, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing out new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, sleep problems, and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people try new ways of relating to partners, family members, or themselves.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's life and adjust as progress or new needs emerge.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions let people read facial expressions and body language, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging allows ongoing notes and brief support between calls. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, parenting, or travel while using the approaches above in ways that fit everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English