Kristine Bartos, LCSW - Therapist in Florida

About Kristine

Kristine Bartos is a licensed clinical social worker who builds therapy around clear goals and practical skills. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions reinforce each other. Her style is warm and encouraging while staying focused on steps that lead to change.

She blends talk about current patterns with attention to how early relationships and experiences shaped expectations. That attachment-informed perspective helps when past hurts keep showing up in present life.

Background and approach

Mindfulness practice is woven in to help people notice what’s happening in the moment without getting swept away. Sessions often include learning coping tools for immediate relief alongside work on longer term patterns. Kristine emphasizes small, concrete skills you can use between sessions.

She also draws on motivational interviewing to support commitment to change when people feel stuck. Kristine holds a Master of Science in Social Work and is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - practicing in Florida.

She has three years of experience working in medical and clinical settings where she supported people facing stress, grief, depression, anxiety, substance concerns, trauma, parenting challenges, relationship difficulties, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her approach centers on understanding each person’s story and matching methods to their needs. She invites straightforward conversation about goals and makes practical plans to reach them.

If someone wants a therapist who balances supportive listening with skill-building, she offers that combined focus.

Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting concerns

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful when stress, anxiety, or life changes get in the way of doing what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, lift low mood, and change patterns that keep problems going.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristine will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These formats let people fit sessions around school, work, or parenting responsibilities and use short messages or real-time conversation as needed. Licensed professionals can still guide skill practice, coach through parenting moments, and support coping with stress even when meeting remotely.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Kristine address?

She works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self esteem, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, relationship issues, family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting, career stress, and compassion fatigue.

What is her therapeutic style?

Her style is warm and encouraging while staying goal- and action-oriented. Sessions combine supportive conversation with concrete skill practice.

What background does she bring to therapy?

She earned a Master of Science in Social Work and has three years of experience working in medical and clinical settings offering counseling and crisis intervention.

Where is she licensed and what credential does she hold?

She is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - licensed in Florida with registration FL LCSW SW15324.

Which languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

How are online sessions conducted?

Kristine offers therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How is pricing handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What do I need to do to begin?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Also works with

Addictions
Career difficulties
Compassion fatigue
Coping with life changes
Depression
Family conflicts
Intimacy-related issues
Parenting issues
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 3 years
Licensed: Florida
Languages: English

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