Dr. Kriss Wiant
Compassionate, experienced guidance for family concerns
- Credentials
- OH Psychologist P.4840
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kriss
Dr. Kriss Wiant is an Ohio psychologist with thirty years of experience. He brings a practical, straightforward style to sessions.
He emphasizes clear communication and works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, anger, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, and ADHD. He speaks English and practices under the credential OH Psychologist P.4840. He aims to create a working relationship that helps clients feel heard and understood.
Early sessions focus on identifying what feels most urgent and what each person hopes to change.
Background and approach
He encourages questions and open discussion about the process so clients know what to expect. Dr. Wiant combines focused listening with concrete skill building.
He helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then develops step-by-step strategies to shift those habits. He also addresses communication problems and practical barriers that get in the way of family and relationship goals. His background includes roles as a military veteran, a former high school teacher, and long experience in clinical settings.
Those experiences shape a calm, steady approach and an appreciation for many life challenges, including first responder and veteran issues, disaster-related coping, and midlife concerns. Therapy typically blends collaborative goal-setting with techniques pulled from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and hypnotherapy when appropriate. Sessions emphasize small, achievable steps toward better day-to-day functioning and clearer relationship patterns.
Online approaches that focus on practical skills
Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes listening and following the client's concerns. The therapist creates space for people to describe their experience and then helps shape goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thinking and replaces it with step-by-step strategies to change mood and behavior; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Choosing an approach is a shared decision. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try methods and adjust them based on what works best for the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and let people connect from home or another suitable space. The variety of formats supports short check-ins, longer weekly sessions, or skill-building between meetings to keep progress moving forward.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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