About Kristel
Kristel Avilus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses a practical, person-focused style to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She brings seven years of clinical experience and a calm, respectful way of talking that aims to make difficult topics easier to face. Her work blends approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, client-centered care, and emotion-focused methods.
Sessions are interactive and aimed at clear goals - reducing overwhelming thoughts, improving relationships, or managing intense feelings.
How Kristel works
She avoids labels and focuses on what each person needs right now. Kristel has supported people through trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, and complex mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She also helps with parenting stress, sleep problems, intimacy worries, and career-related strain.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, body image, and adjustment after separation or disaster. Her style is warm and collaborative. She listens for practical steps a person can try between sessions and works alongside them to build coping skills, emotion regulation, and clearer communication.
Therapy is tailored so goals and tools fit each person’s daily life. Kristel practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English. She offers a range of online formats to make scheduling easier, and she encourages people to take small first steps toward change rather than waiting for everything to be perfect.
Kristel lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Kristel works with
The areas below are the ones Kristel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Kristel often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that align with their values rather than getting stuck reacting to every feeling. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals and situation, and she adapts techniques based on how someone responds over time. Clients help shape the plan so therapy feels useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is useful for face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and accessible for varied schedules and needs.
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