About Kristen
Kristen Lewis is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She works from a respectful, person-centered stance and focuses on helping people move past trauma, anxiety, and life changes. She listens first and helps people name what matters to them.
Sessions are collaborative and practical. Kristen frames difficulties as things that can be worked on rather than fixed labels. Her areas of focus include trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, depression, and stress.
How Kristen works
She also supports people with ADHD, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and career concerns. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, domestic violence, and issues tied to first responder experiences. Kristen draws on approaches such as client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, narrative techniques, and psychodynamic thinking.
She aims to match interventions to each person’s situation and goals. That can mean working on thoughts and behaviors, mapping life stories, or exploring patterns from the past. She holds an LCSW credential in North Carolina and Virginia.
Kristen encourages small steps toward change and offers steady support as people try new ways of coping and relating. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on real-world results.
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.
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Kristen often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely to each person and shaping sessions around their priorities. This approach helps when someone needs support naming goals and finding their own solutions.She also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing stress. Motivational interviewing is another tool she brings in to help people find the motivation to change behaviors related to addictions, caregiving stress, or other challenging habits.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristen will discuss options with each person, try methods that fit their goals, and adjust the plan as needs evolve. The first few sessions often focus on figuring out what feels most helpful.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth weekly sessions. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging can support brief check-ins, coaching-style work, or between-session contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel.
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