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Online therapist

Cristan Steimel

Practical support for family and parenting challenges

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
5 years
Licensed in
Texas
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Cristan

Cristan Steimel is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside relationship and personal stress issues. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and caregiving strain. Her approach centers on practical tools and steady emotional support.

Cristan practices in Texas and holds the LPC credential. Cristan offers straightforward strategies to improve daily functioning and ease family tensions. Sessions emphasize building coping skills, managing stress, and strengthening connections with others.

Background and approach

She commonly uses clear techniques that clients can try between sessions. Her style blends talking through feelings with hands-on methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change them.

Mindfulness practices teach calm, attention, and self-regulation. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to make space for a persons priorities and Motivational Interviewing to support change when it feels difficult. Solution-Focused Therapy is used to set small, achievable goals and track progress.

Cristan has five years of professional experience working with people who face complex life situations. She is familiar with challenges such as chronic illness, disability, postpartum mood changes, and blended family stress. Cristan aims to create a practical, down-to-earth environment where parents and families can find workable steps forward.

Therapeutic approaches for families online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the clients priorities. It gives parents and family members the space to name what matters most and set the pace for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and then practices new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing skills that can lessen stress and improve focus during heated family moments.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Cristan will talk with each person or family about goals, try methods that feel right, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps match techniques to real-life needs and parenting goals.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions fit busy days, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or paced conversations. These options make it easier to fit therapy into family schedules and keep continuity when life gets complicated.

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.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Cristan commonly address?
Cristan works with relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. She also focuses on caregiving stress, ADHD, chronic illness, and other related concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, combining conversation with exercises you can use at home. Sessions focus on building coping skills and small, concrete changes.
What training and experience does she have?
She holds the LPC credential and has five years of professional experience in counseling work. That experience includes helping people with complex life transitions and chronic medical or caregiving issues.
Where is Cristan licensed and based?
She is licensed in Texas as LPC TX LPC 77556 and practices with clients in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the process to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

  • Relationship issues
  • Family conflicts
  • Parenting issues

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Therapeutic approaches

Experience
5 years
Licensed
Texas
Languages
English

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