About Kristy
Kristy Dandridge-Clark is a licensed professional counselor who has worked in Louisiana for two decades. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for someone taking a first step toward change.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. People can expect a calm space to talk through feelings and challenges without fear of judgment. Kristy listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients try different ways of responding to daily stressors.
Background and approach
Her work covers a wide range of concerns. That includes grief, parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, career questions, and coping with life changes. She also addresses trauma and abuse, LGBT concerns, anger, self-esteem, and attention-related struggles such as ADHD.
Kristy brings experience with less common topics too. Those include blended family issues, aging and geriatric matters, BDSM and kink culture, infidelity, and forgiveness. She also supports people processing dissociation, compassion fatigue, and the effects of disasters.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented when that fits, and reflective when clients need space to process. She works collaboratively to set aims and to try approaches that match each person’s situation and pace.
Evidence-informed methods and online care
Kristy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and make changes in daily life. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depression. Another approach emphasizes safe, gradual work with painful events and trauma so people can regain a sense of control and move forward.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Kristy will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on what is actually helping.
Online therapy offers flexible options to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and more conversation time, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging supports quick check-ins, notes between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English