About Kristen
Kristen Kasperek is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who practices in Illinois. She has 14 years of experience and helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, and issues with self-esteem. Kristen often supports people facing relationship or family tensions, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges with sleep or eating.
She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Kristen aims to create a relaxed, non-threatening professional relationship so people feel safe to talk.
Background and approach
She works with clients to identify small first steps and builds a plan that fits their life. Kristen brings experience helping people sort career choices and take practical steps toward new jobs. She helps with resume and cover letter development, interview preparation, and negotiating job offers.
She also uses career inventories to help people match strengths to degree programs and career paths. For people coping with deeper mood or stress concerns, Kristen draws on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors. She supports work on attachment and abandonment issues, boundaries, codependency, and intimacy-related struggles.
Her background includes working with people who have experienced post-traumatic stress, panic and obsessive-compulsive patterns, personality and mood disorders, and complicated grief. Kristen focuses on creating individualized strategies people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more in control. Kristen offers sessions in English and practices with the goal of helping people notice progress.
She invites anyone looking for clearer direction or practical help to consider a first conversation.
Practical approaches for online counseling and day-to-day life
Kristen uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT can help with anxiety, panic attacks, low mood, and patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.Her practice emphasizes collaborative planning. She works with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals and routines, and adjusts methods based on what is or isn’t helpful. Finding the right fit is part of the work together rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and text or chat can support quick check-ins or brief skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to keep consistent work on stress, career tasks, or coping skills without major scheduling strain.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Nevada, Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English