About Kristin
Kristin Fox-Klingensmith helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, and major life changes. She also supports concerns like parenting strain, eating issues, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges, and ADHD. Kristin presents a calm, encouraging presence and aims to make reaching out feel easier.
She brings 22 years of experience in mental health across settings such as community mental health, psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, and county jails. That range means she has worked with both everyday struggles and more intense crises.
Background and approach
Her background gives her familiarity with drug and alcohol addiction and questions about life purpose. Kristin’s counseling style is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental. She values treating people with respect and sensitivity and avoids stigmatizing labels.
She believes the relationship between therapist and client is the foundation for useful work. In sessions she uses tools from cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered approaches. Kristin adapts conversations and goals to fit each person she sees.
She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between meetings. Kristin holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential in Michigan. She understands how difficult it can feel to ask for help because she has used therapy herself.
That experience shapes how she supports people as they begin change and build healthier routines.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kristin often uses cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness in her online work. Cognitive-behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete techniques to manage anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Mindfulness therapy focuses on present-moment awareness, breathing, and simple practices to reduce stress and improve emotional regulation.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for skills training when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are priorities. DBT offers step-by-step tools for handling intense feelings and for improving communication in strained relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristin will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be quicker when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep steady work on goals.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English