Dr. Kristin Rice
Compassionate guidance for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristin
Dr. Kristin Rice is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, family concerns, and depression. She speaks plainly and works to make starting therapy less intimidating for parents and caregivers.
Her style is practical and steady, aimed at small changes that make daily life easier. Dr. Rice believes each person knows their own story.
She draws on eight years of practice to build on strengths clients already have.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and simple tools that can be used at home. She encourages steps that feel doable rather than overwhelming. Her approach blends several evidence-based methods.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify values and take action even when feelings are hard. Attachment-Based Therapy addresses how relationships shape emotions and reactions.
Dr. Rice also uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and somatic techniques to help with stress held in the body. These methods are chosen to match what a parent or caregiver needs in the moment.
She explains techniques in everyday language and practices them together with clients. She works with a broad range of concerns beyond mood and stress, including grief, parenting, intimacy, ADHD, trauma, and caregiver strain. Dr.
Rice is licensed in Connecticut as LPC CT 3796 and offers sessions in English. International clients are accepted.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit busy family life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps clients clarify what matters most to them and then take small steps toward those values even when emotions are difficult. It can be useful for coping with life changes, parenting stress, and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce distress and improve routines. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape reactions and helps repair patterns that cause ongoing conflict or worry.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to what is most practical and helpful for a family's day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for parents and caregivers. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions and live chat give flexibility for shorter check-ins during busy days. Text-based messaging can support brief reflections or coping prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a family schedule while still working with licensed professionals to address worries and conflicts.
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.
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.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point