About Kristian
Kristian Wilson is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida with 16 years of experience. She creates a calm, accepting space where people can talk about what feels hard and figure out practical next steps. Kristian focuses on building trust and helping clients feel heard before moving into goals and strategies.
Her work addresses many common struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addictions, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar challenges, sleep problems, and career or self-esteem issues. Kristian takes an inclusive approach that welcomes LGBT identities and diverse backgrounds. Kristian uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person.
She draws on client-centered care to follow what the client needs, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing helps when change feels overwhelming, and narrative work can help rewrite difficult stories about the self. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Kristian helps clients set clear goals, practice skills between sessions, and track small changes over time. She pays attention to the day-to-day pressures that make problems worse and helps people build routines that reduce those stressors. People who come to Kristian often want straightforward support, steady encouragement, and tools they can use right away.
She works with clients to identify what matters most, then creates an approach that fits their life and pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kristian uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's priorities and pace, listening closely and following what matters most to the client. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance, validation, and space to clarify their own goals.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress-related issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristian will help people choose and try methods based on their concerns, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made. The process is collaborative, not one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their life. Video calls support deeper face-to-face discussion, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging can help with ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English