Kristina Ellen
Calm, practical support for everyday parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristina
Kristina Ellen is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and relationship concerns. She is known for a calm, practical approach that focuses on the whole person. Her style is steady and conversational, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for someone juggling parenting and daily life.
She brings 19 years in the counseling field to each session. Over that time she has worked in telehealth, inpatient treatment centers, assertive community treatment teams, community health settings, primary care medical offices, and independent practice.
Background and approach
Those varied roles inform how she assesses needs and plans care. Kristina uses a mix of well-known methods, and she adapts them to the person in front of her. She draws from client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally-focused work, and the Gottman Method when appropriate.
That lets her match tools to specific problems like communication issues or mood symptoms. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. She describes therapy as a personal journey without strict time limits, and aims to create a relaxed setting for progress.
Kristina holds the LCMHC credential - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - and practices in North Carolina. She works in English and does not accept international clients. The approach is flexible and grounded in real-world experience.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Kristina commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress that affect daily life.She also uses client-centered therapy which centers conversations on the person’s goals and experience. This approach aims to make sessions feel supportive and respectful while clients find their own solutions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will help clients choose which methods to try based on their needs, preferences, and goals. The plan can shift as progress is made, and decisions are collaborative.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so therapy can fit around parenting, work, and medical appointments. These options make it easier to keep continuity when life gets busy and let clients pick what feels most practical for them.
Therapists and licensed professionals often find that these formats support steady progress when sessions are consistent and goals are clear. Kristina’s mix of approaches is adaptable to the online setting and focused on usable skills and clearer communication.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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