Kristy Gehling
Support for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LSCSW
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristy
Kristy Gehling is a licensed social worker in Kansas who focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. She works with people concerned about stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, anger, motivation, and self-esteem. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone worried about their family or personal life.
Her work starts by treating each person as the expert in their own story. Kristy looks for strengths that can be used right away.
Background and approach
She supports clients as they try new ways to handle problems and build confidence. Kristy uses methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and take meaningful action. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to teach practical skills.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy also shape sessions, keeping goals clear and progress measurable. Sessions can address many concerns tied to family and parenting, mood, trauma, and life transitions. She also works with issues like adoption and foster care, blended family challenges, grief, and caregiver stress.
The focus is on concrete steps parents and adults can try between sessions. Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented. Kristy helps clients decide what matters most and then supports steady steps toward those goals.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for people balancing family life and other demands.
How her approaches fit with online therapy
Kristy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients change unhelpful thinking and build actions that match their values. CBT teaches practical exercises to test and shift thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, mood problems, and stress. ACT helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and focus on what matters most in their lives.The choice of approach is a collaborative process. Kristy will work with each client to decide what methods match their goals and preferences. Together they clarify priorities, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around parenting and work. The formats also let clients practice skills between meetings and check in when brief support is helpful.
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.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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