Kristen Schmauder
Supportive social worker for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristen
Kristen Schmauder is a licensed independent social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She practices with a warm and collaborative style. Kristen aims to make space for practical changes and steady emotional support.
She is based in Ohio and speaks English. Kristen brings six years of clinical experience across residential, home-based, and independent practice settings. She has worked with people facing depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and eating concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with trauma, including neglect and emotional and physical abuse. Her work balances several evidence-informed methods. She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to address thinking and behavior patterns, and psychodynamic concepts to look at long-standing emotional themes.
Kristen also draws on strengths-based and solution-focused techniques to build practical steps forward. Sessions are collaborative. Kristen listens first to understand what matters most, then co-creates goals and a plan that fit each person’s life.
She adjusts pace and tools to match needs and comfort. Kristen supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career stresses, and problems with self-esteem and anger. Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and compassionate guidance.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online care
Kristen uses several evidence-informed techniques that translate well to online formats. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. They involve homework and practical tools that are easy to share and track during remote sessions.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to help people notice recurring emotional patterns and how past experiences inform present reactions. This work often involves reflective conversation and can be done through video or phone when a calm, uninterrupted space is available.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day life. Plans are adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction from home. Phone sessions remove the need for video when that feels better. Live chat and text-based messaging give short, on-the-go ways to check in between longer sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and parenting schedules and to continue care during life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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