Kriss Light
Calm guidance for parents and relationships
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kriss
Kriss Light is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on practical support for parents and individuals facing relationship and family concerns. She listens for what feels most urgent to you and helps you sort through stress, grief, parenting challenges, addiction issues, and changes in mood.
Her approach is down-to-earth and aimed at making everyday life feel more manageable for worried parents and caregivers. Kriss uses clear, evidence-informed methods to help people understand patterns that keep causing pain.
Background and approach
She draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape current relationships. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and make small, doable changes in day-to-day habits. With 15 years of clinical experience, Kriss pairs practical tools with thoughtful listening.
She works with common concerns like anxiety, depression, parenting stress, sleeping and eating issues, and coping with life transitions. Her training as an LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist - grounds her work in relationship-focused care. Sessions are offered in English and take place from California.
Kriss offers a brief phone consult to see if she is a good fit and can suggest referrals when another approach might be better. She aims to help clients find clearer choices and calmer routines as they work through difficult moments. Her style is supportive and collaborative, helping parents and adults build small changes that add up.
The goal is clearer understanding, better coping strategies, and more ease in daily family life.
How Kriss blends proven approaches for online care
Kriss commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach looks at how connections and trust affect reactions to stress and helps people change interaction patterns that cause conflict or distance.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT - which focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking and introduces small, practical steps to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change daily habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kriss will talk with each client about goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to use or combine. The plan can change as work progresses so it better fits the person and family needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy family lives. These options let parents and adults attend from home, handle short check-ins between appointments, and use the format that feels most comfortable. The flexibility helps people keep consistent work on relationships and personal goals without long travel or schedule strain.
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.
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
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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