Kirsten King
Calm, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Montana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kirsten
Kirsten King is a licensed clinical professional counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She writes and listens with a calm, nonjudgmental tone. Parents who feel overwhelmed by stress, grief, or relationship strain will find straightforward support and practical steps to try at home.
She uses clear, everyday language to help people manage anxiety, depression, anger, and sleep problems. Kirsten also addresses trauma and abuse, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and identity-related concerns such as gender dysphoria.
Background and approach
Her work includes help with blended family issues, divorce and separation, and family of origin problems. Kirsten draws from several therapy approaches to match each family's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small actions toward them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps shift unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Attachment-Based ideas guide work on relational patterns within families. Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and problem solving that fits daily life.
She aims to make changes feel manageable rather than overwhelming. Parents receive concrete tools to try between meetings and space to talk through setbacks. Kirsten holds the LCPC credential, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor.
She has over two decades of clinical experience and works with people in Montana. Sessions are offered in English and use a mix of video, phone, live chat, and text options.
Therapeutic approaches for families in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters most and take small steps toward those values. In practice this can mean choosing parenting actions that match long-term goals even when emotions run high. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different responses to change behavior and reduce anxiety. That approach is useful for sleep problems, worry, and habits that get in the way of family life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current family interactions and helps families build safer, more reliable ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to the family's goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they decide what to try first and adjust as progress and challenges emerge.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy families. Video calls let the therapist see interactions and coach communication in real time. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to follow up, practice skills, or get short check-ins between meetings. These options aim to make it easier to get consistent support without long travel or schedule disruption.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kirsten
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point