About Kristi
Kristi Heritage is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with six years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, substance use, grief, depression, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy struggles. Her style is warm and direct, and she aims to respond with respect and compassion.
Kristi prefers interactive sessions where people feel heard and involved in planning their care. She mixes person-centered therapy with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Motivational approaches are used when clients need support to make and sustain changes. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy for emotional regulation and coping skills. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, is part of her work with trauma when appropriate.
Mindfulness practices are woven in to help reduce reactivity and improve focus. Kristi adapts her conversations and plans to each person’s situation rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions. She encourages live sessions by video, phone, or chat so people can have focused time together.
Message responses and scheduling are handled with flexibility to fit busy lives. People who want practical skills, steady support, and a nonjudgmental space often seek Kristi’s help. She aims to empower clients to take concrete steps toward a more manageable and fulfilling life.
How Kristi’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. In online sessions this means she helps people set goals and steers conversations to what matters most to the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions and tracked over time.Kristi also uses dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, techniques for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. These skills help when feelings run high or when people struggle with impulsive reactions. Together, these approaches offer both emotional support and tools for day-to-day change, and Kristi works with each person to choose what fits best.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that seem promising, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan stays practical and aligned with their life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English