About Kristina
Kristina Marchese is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings nine years of clinical experience to her practice in Arizona. She focuses on helping people regain a sense of control when stress, anxiety, trauma, or eating concerns feel overwhelming. Her style is straightforward and calm, aiming to help people feel understood and steadier in daily life.
She listens for how past events continue to affect current choices and relationships. Kristina encourages clients to name the hardest parts of their experience and then work on practical steps to reduce their impact.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve building coping skills for panic, anxiety, anger, and distressing thoughts. Kristina also supports people dealing with body image struggles, codependency, attachment concerns, and challenges with communication or control. She helps unpack guilt, shame, and forgiveness so clients can move toward clearer goals and healthier patterns.
For those affected by first responder stress, hoarding, impulsivity, isolation, or jealousy, she offers steady, goal-oriented guidance. Her approach aims to reconnect people with their own strengths and inner voice. Kristina meets people where they are and helps them make choices that fit their life.
She prefers language that is direct and plain so families and busy parents can follow along and use the work between sessions. Work with Kristina centers on practical change. Therapy focuses on small, sustainable steps: reducing panic attacks, improving self-esteem, easing intrusive memories, and learning healthier ways to relate to oneself and others.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Kristina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people reduce panic and anxiety through step-by-step coping strategies and breathing or grounding exercises that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach targets trauma by helping people make sense of upsetting memories, manage flashbacks, and reclaim calm in daily routines. These methods aim to lower distress and restore functioning rather than rely on jargon.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristina will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions stay relevant and useful for the person's day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see facial cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions or have shorter, more frequent touchpoints. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or family life while still receiving structured support.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English