Kristina Malley
Compassionate, practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristina
Kristina Malley is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on making the first step easier for parents and caregivers seeking support. She aims to create a calm, inviting space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and everyday struggles from home. Her approach centers on building trust and clear goals so each person knows what to work on next.
She uses practical methods to identify strengths and break down barriers.
Background and approach
Sessions may include short-term problem solving and skills to manage strong emotions or worry. Kristina emphasizes strategies that fit each person’s life, not one-size-fits-all solutions. Kristina earned a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Immaculata University and holds the LPC credential - Licensed Professional Counselor.
She brings 11 years of experience in mental health work and supports people dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and bipolar or other mood disorders. Her practice also includes attention to family-related concerns like blended family challenges, communication problems, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress.
She offers guidance on self-esteem, body image, eating and sleeping issues, and impulsivity while helping people cope with life changes and career stress. Kristina provides therapy in English and works from Pennsylvania. Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what feels easiest for them.
How Kristina’s Methods Translate to Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person where they are. The therapist follows the client's lead, helps clarify goals, and supports choices that feel right for daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing strong emotions. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, combines acceptance with practical skills training for emotion regulation and coping when stress or impulsivity feel overwhelming.Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Kristina works collaboratively to choose techniques based on what the client wants to change, how they prefer to work, and what fits their routine. She adjusts methods over time so sessions stay relevant and helpful.
Online therapy makes those methods easier to use from home. Video calls allow face-to-face work on skills and problem solving. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging give quick ways to check in, practice tools, and keep momentum between meetings. These options offer flexibility for parents and caregivers managing busy schedules while getting consistent therapeutic support.
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
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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