Kristina Marquez
Calm, practical support for life’s challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristina
Kristina Marquez is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma, and changes in life. She uses plain talk and practical steps so parents and caregivers can understand what to expect. Kristina emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.
She shapes conversations and plans to match each person’s needs. With five years as an LCSW, Kristina brings hands-on experience supporting people through grief, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and career or life-purpose questions.
Background and approach
She also works with issues like intimacy, relationship and family problems, communication difficulties, and parenting challenges. Her practice includes attention to adoption and foster care matters and caregiver stress. Kristina aims to help people build confidence and motivation.
Sessions focus on concrete strategies to cope with day-to-day struggles and on steps toward lasting change. She listens first, then collaborates on a plan that fits each person’s goals and pace. Her approach treats emotional and practical problems together.
That can mean working on coping skills, improving communication, or addressing trauma responses. Kristina supports clients through transitions and helps them find ways to feel more steady and in control. People who prefer a direct, caring style may connect well with her.
She offers sessions in English and works from Illinois as a licensed clinician. The tone in her work is supportive and straightforward, aimed at helping people take clear steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Kristina uses evidence-based techniques that focus on real-world change. One common approach involves skill-building for stress and anxiety management, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavioral strategies to reduce immediate distress and improve daily functioning. Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and hurt in a paced way, helping people make sense of painful experiences and reduce their hold on day-to-day life.Choosing the right method is a team effort. Kristina listens to each person’s goals, problems, and preferences, and then adapts approaches to fit. She checks in over time and adjusts strategies so the plan stays useful and relevant to what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy with her is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules or to connect from different locations within Illinois. The variety of options supports ongoing work even when routines are hectic, and allows different ways to communicate depending on comfort and need.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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