About Kristi
Kristi McClatchy is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She focuses on self-esteem, compassion fatigue, LGBT concerns, and life transitions for adults. Kristi aims to offer a warm, affirming space where clients can talk through daily struggles and deeper emotional wounds.
Kristi centers sessions on listening and collaboration. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and works with them to set both short-term and long-term goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include education about attachment and practical skills to cope with intense emotions and everyday stressors. Her work includes trauma-focused approaches and Internal Family Systems for survivors of childhood abuse and neglect. She also uses mindfulness practices and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to help people regulate emotion and increase present-moment awareness.
Creative expression such as art, movement, writing, meditation, and music may be included when helpful. Kristi pays attention to how social context and identity shape experience. She draws on feminist and queer-allied ideas to explore how systems of power affect feelings and relationships.
That perspective can be useful for people wanting to make sense of how culture and identity influence their mental health. Kristi has nine years of clinical experience and holds a Texas LPC, Licensed Professional Counselor credential. She has worked in non-profit settings, day treatment programs, and inpatient psychiatric care, and she combines that background with a client-centered, collaborative style.
How attachment, mindfulness, and skills work online
Kristi uses Attachment-Based ideas to help people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. That approach includes teaching how attachment styles affect trust, closeness, and communication in adult relationships. It can help people who find themselves repeating old relationship patterns or struggling to open up.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach concrete emotion regulation and coping tools. DBT techniques focus on distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for managing anxiety and strong emotions. Kristi combines these approaches with mindfulness practices to strengthen present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristi collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what’s helping and what isn’t, so the plan evolves as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible access. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can fit shorter check-ins and lower bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging are useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while using approaches like attachment work, DBT skills, and mindfulness in ways that suit each person.
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- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English