Kristl Bray
Practical, experienced support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Utah, Montana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristl
Kristl Bray is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of practice experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, identity questions, relationship problems, and parenting concerns. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to make therapy feel manageable for a busy life.
She uses a mix of approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions usually include skills you can try at home, ways to shift unhelpful thoughts, and attention to relationships that matter. The focus is on small, concrete steps that build steadier emotion and clearer choices. Kristl has worked with topics such as addiction, grief, sleeping troubles, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar and depression, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses more specific concerns like adoption and foster care, blended family issues, attachment challenges, and communication problems. Her background supports handling complex and layered life situations. Kristl practices from Montana and meets with people in English.
She accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
That helps match practical goals with the approaches that fit best for each person.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kristl commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them while learning to sit with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. CBT looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches when relationships or early patterns matter. Attachment work helps identify how past connections shape present reactions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes respect, listening, and tailoring the pace to the person in front of her. Together these approaches help address issues like anxiety, grief, identity questions, parenting concerns, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. She will collaborate with each person to decide what fits best based on needs, goals, and personal preference. That means trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting as work progresses.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family life, maintain continuity during transitions, and access a licensed professional from different locations.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Montana
- Languages
- English
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