About Kristena
Kristena Partridge is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people facing relationship and intimacy struggles, low self-esteem, career challenges, anxiety, and depression. She responds calmly and directly when someone is feeling overwhelmed or unsure about the next step. Her tone is encouraging and practical, aimed at people who need clear support rather than jargon.
She believes each person knows their story best and looks for strengths to build on.
How Kristena works
Sessions focus on concrete skills and realistic steps people can try between meetings. Kristena uses her five years of clinical experience to guide conversations toward clearer goals and everyday coping tools. Her work addresses grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and the stress of life transitions.
She also helps with issues around abandonment, attachment, codependency, commitment, jealousy, and control. Kristena is familiar with concerns related to chronic illness, intellectual or developmental disability, and autism spectrum differences. Therapy with her mixes listening and teaching.
People can expect practical exercises, direct feedback, and collaborative goal-setting. The aim is to reduce distress and increase confidence in handling daily challenges. Kristena practices in Tennessee and meets with people in English.
She frames therapy as a partnership and supports people who want both short-term coaching and longer-term work depending on their needs.
What Kristena works with
The areas below are the ones Kristena selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Approaches and online options for relationship and life stress
Kristena uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical steps people can use in daily life. One approach helps people identify unhelpful patterns in relationships and practice new ways of communicating and setting boundaries to reduce conflict and improve intimacy. Another method teaches skills for managing anxiety and low mood through short, doable strategies that target thinking, behavior, and stress management. Finding the right approach is a joint process. Kristena will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit the situation. She adjusts plans together with the person as needs change and progress is tracked with simple measures. Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations, while phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for ongoing coaching, brief updates, or quick coping strategies between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules and to maintain continuity when life is busy.Start online instead of waiting
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