About Kristina
Dr. Kristina Thompson helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, anger, and addiction. She also supports concerns around ADHD, sleep and eating issues, intimacy and self-esteem, and parenting stress.
Dr. Thompson works with people dealing with relationship and family conflict, adoption and attachment questions, and the strains that come with caregiving. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in Mississippi with 13 years of counseling experience.
Background and approach
Her manner is warm, open, and nonjudgmental. She focuses on building rapport first so people feel heard and understood before moving into strategies. Her sessions blend practical tools and meaningful conversation.
She uses techniques from client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to each person. She also brings cognitive behavioral methods to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. For people processing trauma, she can use EMDR to address disturbing memories and reduce their emotional hold.
Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs help finding their own reasons to change. Narrative therapy helps some clients rewrite the stories they tell about themselves. Dr.
Thompson aims to help people find coping skills that fit daily life. She offers guidance, encouragement, and clear options rather than one-size-fits-all answers. The first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Dr. Thompson commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work means the conversation follows what matters most to the person, with the therapist reflecting back concerns and priorities to build trust and clarity. Cognitive behavioral therapy gives concrete tools to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping skills.She also uses EMDR for people processing traumatic memories when that approach fits their needs; EMDR focuses on reducing the emotional intensity of distressing memories so daily life feels less disrupted. Choosing an approach is collaborative - the therapist and client review goals, try methods, and adjust the plan together until it feels useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for full conversations and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, home routines, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English