About Krysten
Krysten Maley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical strategies to reduce stress and anxiety and supports people facing depression and trauma. Krysten also helps clients navigating LGBT-related concerns, self-esteem, and confidence issues.
She emphasizes a straightforward, respectful approach that centers the client’s own strengths. Krysten uses clear, goal-oriented techniques so people can see progress between sessions. She draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are introduced to help manage strong emotions and ground attention in the present moment. Motivational interviewing is part of her work when people want help finding the energy to make changes. Sessions usually focus on small, achievable steps and building on what already works in someone’s life.
Krysten listens for the values that matter to each person and links those to practical actions. She has helped people with body image concerns, gender dysphoria questions, guilt and shame, post-traumatic stress, sexuality issues, and social anxiety or phobia. Her style is direct but warm, avoiding jargon so conversations stay useful and clear.
Krysten encourages people to notice small wins and to use those as momentum for larger change. Starting therapy with her involves describing current struggles and setting short-term goals. Over time the focus can shift based on progress and changing needs.
She aims to make each session feel focused and relevant to everyday life.
How CBT, Mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing work online
Krysten draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts by linking thoughts, feelings, and actions and then testing new ways of thinking and acting.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and help people stay present with strong emotions. Those skills can be practiced during sessions and used between meetings to calm the nervous system and improve focus.
Motivational interviewing is a conversational approach that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure how to begin making changes, and it pairs well with goal-setting from other approaches.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Krysten will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods as therapy progresses. Clients can expect shared decision making about techniques and homework that fit their life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video works well for more in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or text-based messaging is useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to maintain momentum and integrate therapy into a busy schedule.
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- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English