About Kristen
Kristen Barrett is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She brings a warm, upbeat approach and aims to make the first step toward help feel less overwhelming for those seeking support.
She has five years of experience in diverse settings, including in-home care, hospitals, a personal office, and running an outpatient day program. That range exposed her to mild to more severe clinical concerns and to a broad set of life challenges people face.
Background and approach
Kristen works with common issues such as ADHD, low self-esteem, anger, grief, and family conflict. She also supports people navigating intimacy-related concerns, career stress, caregiving strain, and grief. Additional focus areas include body image, commitment and communication problems, blended family issues, and alternative sexual cultures like BDSM and kink.
Her style is person-centered and practical. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques alongside a client-centered stance. Sessions aim to set clear goals and simple steps to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Kristen emphasizes cultural awareness and meets people where they are. She aims to create a non-judgmental space where clients can talk through their concerns, build coping skills, and work toward tangible change. She welcomes people who want a supportive, action-oriented path forward.
Approaches and online care that focus on progress
Kristen commonly combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients reach real goals. Client-centered work emphasizes listening and understanding so people feel heard and respected while working through whatever brought them to therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and preferences, then adapt techniques to fit what the client needs. Together they set concrete steps and check progress regularly to make sure the work is useful.
Online therapy offers flexible options to fit busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter, frequent check-ins or when writing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English