About Kristine
Kristine Edstrom is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and challenges like addiction, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, relationship strain, and big life changes. She speaks directly and calmly, making it easy to bring up hard topics and start working toward change.
Kristine holds LPCC, which is the Minnesota licensed professional clinical counselor credential she lists. She aims to build an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they really think and feel.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and small experiments you can try between meetings. She encourages straightforward goals and checks in on progress together. Kristine uses a mix of methods depending on what each person needs.
Client-centered work keeps sessions focused on the client's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness techniques offer tools for managing intense emotions and reducing reactivity.
Her approach to trauma emphasizes careful pacing and attention to safety, so memories and reactions can be processed without becoming overwhelming. She balances skill teaching with space to reflect and recover. With nine years of experience, Kristine draws on practical skills rather than long lecture-style sessions.
She prefers straightforward conversation and actionable strategies that fit daily life. The goal is steady progress toward better coping and clearer choices.
How Kristine’s Approaches Work Online
Kristine commonly blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness-based techniques to address anxiety, depression, and everyday stress. CBT helps identify thought patterns and change behaviors that keep problems going, while mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotions run high. DBT offers straightforward tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be practiced between sessions and reviewed together. These approaches are practical and skill-focused, which fits well with online formats.
Kristine approaches choosing methods as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The client and therapist decide together which skills to prioritize and how fast to move through material.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and real-time skill coaching. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, step-by-step coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and practice new skills between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English