About Kristin
Kristin DePolo is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and family conflict. She works with teens and adults and focuses on improving self-esteem, anger management, and attention-related concerns. Kristin brings a calm, respectful style to sessions and aims to create a space where people feel heard.
She uses practical, straightforward methods to address daily struggles. Sessions often focus on small, workable steps that fit into a busy life.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. Kristin has twelve years of experience in behavioral health settings. That experience includes supporting people with mood and personality disorders, developmental differences such as autism, chronic illness and disability, and challenges around pregnancy and caregiving.
She has worked with people facing substance use and severe mental health diagnoses as part of her background. Her approach draws on several evidence-based models. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports identifying values and taking committed action. Elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy appear when teaching emotion regulation and offering empathic listening. In practical terms, Kristin helps people set clear goals, learn coping skills, and try new habits between sessions.
She encourages gradual progress and checks in on what is and isn’t working. The aim is to build tools that make daily life more manageable and more meaningful.
How Kristin’s approaches translate to online therapy
Kristin uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in practical ways that fit remote sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors; online work can include homework, worksheets, and real-time skill practice during a video call. ACT emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them, which can be done through short exercises, goal setting, and check-ins between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Kristin will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and daily routines to recommend methods that match needs and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is helpful and what feels realistic for the client.
Online formats offer flexible ways to keep therapy part of a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill coaching and role play. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick questions, brief support between sessions, or for people who prefer writing to speaking. These options help make ongoing work more practical and consistent for everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English