About Kristina
Kristina Kerr is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee with 20 years in mental health work. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, relationship and self-esteem concerns. Kristina uses clear, down-to-earth language and aims to make sessions easy to follow.
She draws on client-centered care to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space. That means she meets people where they are and listens first. From there she blends tools to fit each person's needs rather than using a single fixed method.
Background and approach
Kristina often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and change responses. She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings run high. Mindfulness practices and conversations about meaning and values can help people cope with life transitions and grief.
Her background includes working with addiction and trauma issues alongside mood and anxiety concerns. She also helps with eating and sleeping difficulties, intimacy and relationship struggles, parenting strain, anger, career stress, and questions about identity and belonging. Kristina adapts her approach to each concern rather than applying the same plan to everyone.
Sessions are focused on short, practical steps you can try between meetings. She aims to build trust and clear goals so people can see steady progress. Kristina welcomes questions and works together with clients to find what helps most.
Approach-focused care through online sessions
Kristina often blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, acceptance, and working at the person's pace to build trust. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy adds concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, which can help with anxiety, mood swings, and impulses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristina collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time so the plan stays useful as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, written reflections, or when someone prefers not to use audio. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and practice skills between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English