Kristen Rawls
Careful, practical therapy for family needs
- Credentials
- LSCSW
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristen
Kristen Rawls is a licensed social worker who uses practical, hands-on therapy to help people get through hard times. He brings seven years of experience and focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, anger, and depression. Kristen treats parenting and family concerns as part of his work and aims to make conversations straightforward and useful from the first session.
He favors approaches that help people notice their thoughts, choose meaningful actions, and build better habits.
Background and approach
Sessions are respectful and down-to-earth. Kristen adapts each plan to match what a person needs right now instead of following a fixed script. In the room he listens first and then works with each person to set small, clear goals.
He draws on methods such as acceptance and commitment, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and mindfulness to teach tools for coping, managing strong emotions, and improving communication. Kristen also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, and issues with addiction or burnout. He focuses on practical steps clients can take between sessions to feel more grounded and capable.
Because he works with a range of concerns, he tailors session pace and techniques to the situation. Kristen practices in Kansas as an LSCSW, and he aims to make therapy an understandable, manageable next step for people looking for help.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Kristen uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as key tools in his work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like depression and anger.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He will work with clients to choose or combine methods based on their goals and what feels useful. That collaborative planning helps shape short-term steps and homework between sessions so progress can be tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit sessions into busy family schedules, get support from home, and follow a rhythm that works for them. The variety of formats also makes it easier to try different ways of working and find what helps most.
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.
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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point