About Kristine
Kristine Gustafson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years of clinical experience. She uses clear, practical approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on small, usable steps that fit everyday life.
Kristine blends acceptance and commitment therapy with cognitive behavioral tools and client-centered listening. She often uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns and choose actions that match their values.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can try between meetings and on understanding what gets in the way of change. Her work includes support for those facing trauma, addiction, grief, and burnout. She also helps people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image, and identity concerns in the LGBT community.
Kristine returns conversations to practical goals and coping strategies when worry or overwhelm takes over. People say the process feels collaborative. Kristine helps set clear goals and checks progress as therapy continues.
She draws on a range of techniques so the plan can shift if needs change. Kristine practices in Missouri and offers sessions in English. She welcomes clients from other regions who prefer online formats.
The focus is on steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online work
Kristine often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take steps that match those values. ACT combines noticing thoughts and feelings with practical actions you can try between sessions. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to practice new behaviors that reduce anxiety or improve mood. CBT gives concrete exercises and experiments to test new ways of coping.Choosing the right approach happens together. Kristine will discuss your goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process means the work can shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions include video calls, phone meetings, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video lets you use visual cues during skill practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or health constraints.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English