Chrystal Westbrook
Compassionate counselor for relationship and intimacy challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Chrystal
Chrystal Westbrook is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 13 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She focuses on practical skills and techniques people can use day to day. Chrystal aims to help clients repair communication and rebuild trust in intimate relationships.
She also addresses sexual concerns, chronic pain or illness, and issues tied to body image and desire. Chrystal has developed experience with anxiety, depression, stress-related problems, domestic violence, and sexual trauma during her years in practice.
Background and approach
Her work blends several therapeutic ideas so she can match methods to a client’s needs. She describes the therapy space as warm, supportive, and nonjudgmental to encourage honest conversation. Sessions emphasize concrete tools that clients can practice outside of appointments.
Chrystal adapts methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused ideas to the situation. She also draws on acceptance-based strategies and existential perspectives when they fit the client’s goals. Clients can expect a collaborative process that looks at patterns in thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
The therapist helps people build coping skills and clearer communication habits. Chrystal frames change as gradual and practical rather than immediate or prescribed. For those concerned about sex, intimacy, or relationship repair, she brings specific experience working with sexual dysfunction, desire concerns, and intimacy issues.
She also supports people managing grief, addiction, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Chrystal works in English and accepts international clients.
Online approaches for relationship and intimacy work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on values-based action. It can be useful for anxiety, coping with life changes, and improving commitment to relationship goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on emotional patterns in close relationships and helps partners express needs and rebuild connection, which can be useful for intimacy and trust issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Chrystal discusses goals and preferences with each person and tailors methods to the situation. She combines elements from different models when that better fits what a client or couple needs, so the process stays collaborative and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings. The varied formats let clients choose what feels most comfortable for discussing sensitive topics like intimacy, body image, or sexual concerns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point