Kristen Barrett
Supportive counselor for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristen
Kristen Barrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a broad range of individual issues. She takes a straightforward, warm approach and aims to create a positive space where people can talk through what’s worrying them. Her style is supportive while staying practical and goal-oriented.
Kristen draws on five years of hands-on experience in mental health settings to guide sessions.
Background and approach
She has worked in homes, hospitals, personal offices, and ran an outpatient day program for people with severe mental illness. That variety shaped her ability to adapt to different needs and levels of stress. Kristen commonly addresses anxiety, ADHD, depression, anger, self-esteem, relationship and family conflict, and caregiver stress.
In sessions she begins where the person is and chooses tools that fit that person’s life. She often uses client-centered techniques to listen and build rapport. She also brings in cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and mindfulness to manage strong emotions.
Kristen values practical steps and measurable progress. She helps clients set clear goals and break them into manageable actions. Her approach is collaborative and direct, while keeping the tone encouraging and upbeat.
Her background includes work with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mild autism, and she has experience addressing issues like grief, trauma, body image, blended family challenges, and intimacy-related concerns. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Kristen commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, building trust, and letting the client lead the pace and topics; it helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and family stresses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behavior, offering concrete exercises and strategies to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and handle relationship or parenting challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristen will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then offer techniques that match those needs. Over time she adjusts methods so the plan stays practical and realistic for the client’s life.
Online therapy with Kristen can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to keep support consistent across locations. The flexible formats let clients use whichever way of communicating feels most comfortable while still working on clear goals and step-by-step progress.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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