About Kristen
Kristen Buongiorno is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of practice experience in New Jersey. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Kristen takes a direct but compassionate approach and aims to work alongside motivated clients to make practical changes in their lives.
Her work draws on therapies that link thoughts, feelings, and behavior, especially cognitive behavioral techniques. She also uses mindfulness and skills-based methods to help people stay grounded and cope with strong emotions.
How Kristen works
Sessions often include goal setting and simple tools clients can try between meetings. Kristen has worked with people facing grief, major life changes, caregiving stress, and issues related to military service and first responder roles. She also addresses concerns such as addiction, body image, eating issues, ADHD, and challenges around commitment, communication, or intimacy.
She emphasizes safety and will help develop safety plans when needed. The process is collaborative - clients’ goals guide the work and Kristen offers straightforward feedback and practical strategies to reach them. Kristen supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, career uncertainty, and questions about life purpose.
Her style mixes skill-building, motivational techniques, and mindfulness so clients can practice new ways of coping between sessions.
Kristen lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Kristen works with
The areas below are the ones Kristen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approach-Based Online Care with Practical Skills
Kristen often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying out different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and support emotional regulation.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills when intense emotions or relationship conflicts are present. DBT skills teach clear strategies for managing strong feelings, improving communication, and tolerating distress without making things worse. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which mix of approaches fits their goals and situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and skill coaching, phone can work when bandwidth is low, chat is convenient for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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