About Kirstina
Kirstina Quast is a licensed independent clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, parenting strains, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She works with people facing mood disorders, addiction, ADHD, career pressures, and life changes. Her tone is practical and collaborative, focused on clear steps rather than jargon.
She draws on nine years of clinical experience in Minnesota and a background across adult and children’s mental health, residential treatment, child welfare, and adoption and foster care services.
How Kirstina works
That range informs how she understands family history, attachment, and caregiving stress. Her approach is adaptable. She uses methods that include attachment-based work, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR for trauma, and motivational interviewing.
Sessions emphasize hands-on strategies, problem solving, and building skills to manage symptoms day to day. Kirstina aims to meet people where they are and treats them as the experts on their lives. She combines practical tools with listening and questions that help people see patterns, try new responses, and practice different ways of coping.
Sessions are aimed at clear goals and small changes that add up. She has a special interest in adoption and foster care issues, attachment and family-of-origin concerns, end-of-life and hospice related matters, and caregiver stress. People looking for someone who uses creative thinking and plain language to address complicated problems may find her approach helpful.
Kirstina lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Kirstina works with
The areas below are the ones Kirstina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and on how early bonds shape current reactions. Online sessions can use this approach to map relationship patterns, practice new responses, and build emotional understanding in everyday life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions CBT is used to identify unhelpful thinking, try small behavioral experiments, and learn practical skills for anxiety, depression, and mood management.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories. When done online it follows a structured process with guidance from the therapist to work through traumatic material safely and at the client’s pace.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, past experiences, and what feels most comfortable. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT, EMDR, or a blend best fits the needs and preferences.
Online therapy with this practice is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.
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