About Kristen
Kristen Patryna is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and related struggles. She writes plainly, listens closely, and aims to build a respectful, equal relationship with each person she sees. She focuses on practical skills as well as honest conversation.
Sessions mix validation with problem-solving and skill practice that people can use between meetings. Kristen emphasizes emotion regulation, mindfulness, and coping tools so clients can notice change and try new approaches in daily life.
Background and approach
Kristen has seven years of clinical experience and a longer history in the mental health field. She has worked with teens and adults in both individual and group settings. That background informs how she tailors sessions to fit each person’s routine and needs.
Her work often addresses anxiety and related symptoms, but she also supports people facing trauma and abuse, addiction, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions. Additional focuses include communication problems, impulsivity, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic attacks, self-harm, social anxiety, and young adult issues. In sessions she draws from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Kristen aims to create a clear plan and teach skills that people can use outside of therapy. She offers services in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English.
How Kristen’s approaches work online
Kristen uses Client-Centered Therapy to start by listening and building a collaborative relationship. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes goals around what matters to them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. CBT focuses on breaking unhelpful patterns and teaching concrete skills for anxiety, mood problems, and panic symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is part of her toolkit when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or interpersonal effectiveness skills are needed. DBT offers step-by-step exercises to manage intense emotions and improve communication.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kristen will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and daily life and then suggest approaches to try. She adjusts plans over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone may be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options aim to give flexibility and consistent access to care across different schedules and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English