About Kristi
Kristi Skeem is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience in counseling. She combines practical problem solving with steady support. She meets people where they are and helps them move forward one step at a time.
Kristi draws on a background that includes work in correctional settings, mental health programs, and substance use services. She has also worked with leaders and people in high-profile roles who face stress and transition.
Background and approach
Her experience spans many life situations and lifestyles. In sessions she focuses on identifying strengths and rebuilding a sense of purpose. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions.
She also uses client-centered listening to make space for what matters most to each person. Kristi helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, anger, grief, and relationship concerns. She also supports those navigating career changes, parenting stressors, adoption and foster care topics, and identity issues related to online versus real-life roles.
Additional areas include attachment and communication problems, codependency, and forgiveness. Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions look at daily choices and workable steps.
Kristi invites clients to experiment with new habits and to build on strengths already present.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kristi often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, and it can help with anxiety, depression, anger, and habits connected to addiction.She also uses a Client-Centered approach that prioritizes listening and understanding. This method creates room for people to notice what matters most to them and to choose changes that fit their values and daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristi will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, then pick or combine methods that fit. She treats the plan as collaborative and adjusts it as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for many schedules. Video calls let people keep a visual connection similar to in-person sessions. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, coaching-style support, or people who prefer writing to speaking.
These options make it easier to fit counseling around work, parenting, or travel and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English