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Dr. Kristen Rumley

Thoughtful family-focused care

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Credentials
LCSW
Experience
21 years
Licensed in
Pennsylvania, Texas, Connecticut
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Kristen

Dr. Kristen Rumley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 21 years of experience. She practices from Texas and focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.

She aims to create a straightforward, respectful space where people can talk about what matters to them. She emphasizes a warm, genuine approach and believes the relationship between therapist and person matters most. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and self-esteem.

Background and approach

She also addresses issues like addiction, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, and coping with major life changes. Dr. Rumley uses methods grounded in attachment work and client-centered care to help people understand their patterns.

She brings mindfulness and narrative techniques into sessions to help people notice thoughts and reframe their stories. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses when people want to make specific changes. In sessions she focuses on listening and understanding before offering practical steps.

Conversations typically include exploring emotions, identifying small goals, and trying different ways to solve problems. She prefers video sessions but also meets by phone, live chat, or text-based messaging when that fits the person better. Her license is LCSW with registration details in Texas and Pennsylvania.

Sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short questionnaire and schedules a session based on the therapist's availability.

How attachment work and client-centered care translate online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online sessions with this approach help people spot patterns in how they relate to others and try new ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person in the room - the therapist listens without judgment and supports people to find their own answers. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, accepting place to talk through hard emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will partner with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean combining attachment work with client-centered listening and adding mindfulness or motivational techniques as needed.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions reduce technology barriers and can feel more personal for some people. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to work in shorter, more frequent exchanges. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and to try different formats until they find what works best.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, self-esteem, parenting, relationship and family issues, addictions, trauma and a range of related concerns listed in her profile.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is open and genuine. She listens first, then uses practical steps like goal-setting, mindfulness, and narrative work to help people move forward.
What is her clinical background?
She has 21 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has worked broadly with issues such as coping skills, attachment, and motivation.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is licensed as an LCSW and the profile lists licenses TX LCSW 113650 and PA LCSW CW016569, with practice based in Texas.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or through text-based messaging.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience
21 years
Licensed
Pennsylvania, Texas, Connecticut
Languages
English

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