About Kristi
Kristi Heritage is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with six years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and career challenges. Her work also includes support for compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, and coping with major life changes.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that feel doable.
How Kristi works
She values respect and sensitivity, and avoids stigmatizing labels when talking about problems. Kristi uses a mix of simple, evidence-informed methods to meet each person where they are. She draws on client-centered techniques to follow a person’s lead, cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thoughts and behavior patterns, and dialectical behavior strategies to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills.
She also uses EMDR to address traumatic memories when appropriate and mindfulness practices to reduce rumination. Kristi adapts plans to each person’s needs. Conversations can include skill practice, behavioral experiments, and homework aimed at small changes that add up.
She encourages live sessions for focused time together and also responds to messages between meetings as schedules allow. If someone is ready to explore change, Kristi offers supportive, goal-focused work to help them move forward. She aims to create steady, manageable steps toward better coping and clearer priorities.
Kristi lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kristi works with
The areas below are the ones Kristi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Kristi commonly uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and following a person's priorities so conversations shape the work. This approach helps people clarify goals and feel understood during sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful habits; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kristi works collaboratively to identify what fits a person's needs and preferences, and she adjusts plans as goals evolve. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to emphasize skills practice, trauma-focused work, or mindful awareness depending on progress and comfort.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and easier to fit during a break. Live chat and text messaging let people check in, get short support, and track progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain momentum while juggling work and daily life.
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