About Kristin
Kristin Ray uses a collaborative, client-centered approach to help people manage anxiety, stress, and major life changes. She works with practical strategies to reduce anxious and depressive symptoms and to build coping skills that fit each person's life. Kristin keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what the client wants to change.
Kristin draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and reframe negative thought patterns. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing techniques for people who have trauma or intrusive memories.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing help people stay engaged and make steady progress. Many clients come with relationship, intimacy, or family-related concerns. Kristin also supports people dealing with parenting stress, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and communication problems.
She pays attention to mood disorders such as depression and bipolar symptoms when they affect day-to-day functioning. Kristin has nine years of clinical experience and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential in Texas. That background informs a practical style that focuses on real-life changes rather than abstract theory.
She aims to help people regain energy, improve sleep, and reduce overwhelming feelings. Her practice addresses a wide set of concerns including ADHD, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, body image, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue. Sessions emphasize skills people can use between meetings so progress carries into daily life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Kristin commonly integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR into her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. EMDR addresses distressing memories and trauma symptoms by combining focused recall with guided eye movements or similar bilateral stimulation to reduce the intensity of intrusive memories.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that seem to fit, and adjust the plan as needed. This helps make sure the work aligns with what the person wants to change and how they prefer to work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, short updates between sessions, or times when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English