About Kriss
Kriss Light is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns. Parents who are juggling care and work, and people navigating big life changes, often seek her steady, practical support.
Kriss focuses on making difficult feelings easier to name and talk about. Sessions aim to clear away confusion so choices feel more visible.
How Kriss works
She listens closely, asks straightforward questions, and offers tools people can use between meetings. Her background includes long experience with attachment-related issues and patterns people carry from their family of origin. That history informs work on codependency, abandonment fears, fatherhood concerns, and problems that show up again and again in relationships.
She also addresses eating and sleeping challenges, anger, and compassion fatigue. Therapeutic methods include client-centered work that centers each person's experience, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and emotionally focused strategies to improve connection and closeness. Kriss also uses EMDR for trauma and attachment-based approaches for relational healing.
Clients who appreciate calm, clear guidance find her approach helpful. She offers sessions in English from California and uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Cost varies by location and is handled through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Kriss lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Kriss works with
The areas below are the ones Kriss selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Kriss commonly integrates attachment-based work, client-centered care, and cognitive behavioral strategies when working with clients online. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people change long-standing patterns that cause repeated hurt. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels understood and can lead the pace of change. Cognitive behavioral techniques offer practical steps to test and shift thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kriss will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then choose methods that feel like the best fit. She treats this as a collaboration and adjusts the plan as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual connection, while phone sessions can work better when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates between sessions or fit counseling into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into real life.
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