About Cristan
Cristan Steimel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or parenting challenges. She focuses on practical skills that make daily life easier. Cristan aims to help clients feel more capable and connected.
She draws on client-centered techniques to listen and respond to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot patterns of thought and change unhelpful habits.
How Cristan works
Mindfulness practices help people manage stress and stay present. Her work includes support for caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, ADHD, grief, and the strain that follows separation or divorce. Cristan also addresses intimacy-related issues, compassion fatigue, and career concerns with straightforward strategies.
She helps people set small, achievable goals and build routines that stick. Sessions often focus on skills practice, problem solving, and short-term plans for coping. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone wants help finding their own reasons to change.
Solution-Focused Therapy guides quick, practical steps when time and energy are limited. Cristan brings five years of professional counseling experience to her practice. She works with adults and teens with developmental or physical disabilities when those needs are stated by the client.
Sessions are offered in English and are conducted online in several formats.
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What Cristan works with
The areas below are the ones Cristan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Cristan’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard, identify personal goals, and take steps that match their values and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people recognize thought patterns that get in the way and replace them with more helpful habits. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and problem-solving around daily routines. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus. These techniques are useful for stress management, coping with chronic illness, and building emotional balance. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and preferences, and then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made based on what helps in real life, so therapy stays useful and practical. Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can feel easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging offer short check-ins and quick skill coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity and practice skills in day-to-day life.Start online instead of waiting
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