About Kristen
Kristen Lewis helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem struggles, grief, trauma, and sleep problems. She also supports folks managing anger, career transitions, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Kristen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and holds a CSW credential.
She takes a direct and approachable style in sessions. Conversations are practical and focused on clear goals. She pairs talking with concrete steps clients can try between meetings.
How Kristen works
Kristen uses methods drawn from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-based thinking, dialectical behavior strategies, and client-centered care. Those approaches help people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful patterns, and build better ways to cope. Her background includes nine years of professional experience and practice in Colorado.
Kristen has worked with a range of concerns across different life stages and brings that experience into each session. Clients can expect a collaborative process. She listens to what matters most, helps set achievable goals, and adjusts tools to fit each person’s life.
The focus is on steady progress and practical change. People often come for help with communication problems, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, commitment worries, dissociation, divorce and separation, and questions about life purpose. Kristen also supports first responder issues, men’s issues, and problems rooted in attachment patterns.
If someone is looking for straightforward guidance paired with active strategies, Kristen blends conversation and action to help people move forward.
Kristen lists 11 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
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care for online therapy
Kristen draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take small, consistent steps toward those values. ACT is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and when someone feels stuck by unhelpful thoughts.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early and close relationships shape patterns today. That work can help with intimacy worries, communication problems, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristen will listen to goals and try methods that fit each person’s needs and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time and collaborates on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, written processing, or when messaging fits someone’s routine. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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