About Kris
Kris Fant is a licensed counselor practicing in Oregon who focuses on practical, behavior-focused work. She brings eight years of experience to sessions and aims to help people change habits that get in the way of daily life. Her approach is warm and collaborative, with an emphasis on identifying strengths and using them to move forward.
She draws on several therapeutic ideas to shape an individualized plan. Sessions often look at how past relationships and patterns affect present choices.
Background and approach
Work on behaviors includes helping with sleep routines, managing persistent pain, and making changes around substance use and exercise. Kris earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Gonzaga University and a Master of Counseling Psychology from Argosy University. Early roles in teaching, group leadership, crisis stabilization, and domestic violence advocacy inform her practical perspective.
That background supports a focus on real-world habits as part of emotional health. People come to her for help with mood and anxiety concerns, stress, grief, anger, relationship strain, and bipolar management. She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, career questions, and LGBT-related concerns.
Sessions emphasize achievable steps and clear goals rather than abstract theory. Therapy with Kris typically centers on small, concrete changes that can improve sleep, reduce stress, and build better day-to-day routines. She works side by side with clients to set realistic targets and track progress.
If someone is unsure where to begin, she starts by mapping current patterns and next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Two approaches commonly used are behavior-focused work and attachment-informed exploration. Behavior-focused work breaks concerns into concrete habits to change, such as sleep routines, exercise, or substance use, and uses small steps to build new patterns. Attachment-informed exploration looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people notice and shift repeating patterns that cause stress.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is tracked. That way the work stays practical and personally relevant rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people exchange shorter updates, try brief exercises between sessions, and fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistent work toward goals while fitting sessions into real life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English