About Kyria
Kyria Chrisp-Stashak is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alaska. She brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. Kyria aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable and supportive.
She creates an open, nonjudgmental space where people can name their feelings and worries. Conversations are straightforward and paced to fit each person's needs. Kyria listens for patterns that keep problems repeating, then helps clients try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Kyria draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma and abuse, addiction-related concerns, and intimacy issues. She also supports work on self-esteem, coping with life changes, and mood-related challenges including bipolar disorder. Practical skills and clear steps are part of the work when helpful.
Common additional focuses include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family and family-of-origin problems, communication breakdowns, and issues like jealousy or infidelity. She also brings experience with multicultural concerns and veteran and armed forces issues. Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on small, achievable goals.
Kyria offers help for people navigating parenting strain, isolation or loneliness, and co-occurring substance use and mood concerns. Her approach balances listening with offering tools clients can use between sessions. The goal is steady progress toward a more settled daily life.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to help people break unhelpful patterns and learn practical skills. One common approach focuses on processing trauma and abuse in small, manageable steps so memories and reactions feel less overwhelming; this helps when past events keep affecting day-to-day life. Another common focus is symptom-based skills work for anxiety and mood challenges, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior changes that reduce intense feelings and improve routine functioning.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust as progress is made, keeping sessions collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills visually. Phone sessions can fit into a quick break and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for short check-ins, daily coping support, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity across changing schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English