About Kirsten
Kirsten Probst-Santha is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She uses straightforward talk and practical tools so parents and individuals can manage day-to-day emotions. Her style is warm and direct, with a focus on building useful skills rather than long lectures.
Kirsten draws on client-centered methods to tune into each person's experience. She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking and change small routines that get in the way.
How Kirsten works
Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance need extra practice. Sessions are collaborative. Kirsten works with clients to set short, achievable goals and then checks progress regularly.
She often uses solution-focused steps to get quick relief and then adds depth with trauma-focused and emotionally focused work when needed. Her background includes work in school, residential, and community-based settings. That variety has shaped a practical approach to problems like parenting stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiver strain.
She has four years of clinical experience and holds LCSW credentials in North Carolina and Illinois. Kirsten offers several online session formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs. She accepts international clients and conducts work in English.
The first visit focuses on understanding immediate concerns and planning the next steps together.
Kirsten lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Kirsten works with
The areas below are the ones Kirsten selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on skills and connection
Client-centered therapy begins by making space for what matters to the client and shaping sessions around their priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and sets the stage for practical work on problems that cause day-to-day strain.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people identify patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and replace them with small, manageable behavioral changes. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds concrete skills for managing intense emotion and improving distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with clients to identify immediate goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what proves most helpful. This keeps the work relevant and focused on real-life changes.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat work well for brief check-ins or when a short message is all that is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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