About Kristl
Kristl Bray is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, mood swings, and the challenges that come with major life changes. Kristl draws on a person-centered approach to help people feel heard and understood.
Her sessions aim to be straightforward and down to earth. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills people can use between appointments.
How Kristl works
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients notice values and take small steps toward them. Kristl has long experience supporting people exploring sexual and gender identity and those facing career or relationship stress. She also works with concerns such as grief, addiction, ADHD, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Her background includes helping people with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and aging-related topics. Clients describe practical tools for communication, coping with anger, and navigating commitment or separation challenges. She also addresses body image, codependency, caregiving strain, and processing trauma from disasters.
Kristl offers care in English and accepts international clients. Kristl practices from Montana as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker in Montana and Utah. Sessions are available via video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Kristl lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kristl works with
The areas below are the ones Kristl selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
How Kristl's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-based steps. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is about spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors. It provides concrete exercises and practice that target mood, sleep, and stress symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those tools often help with anger, relationship strain, and overwhelming emotions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they adapt techniques and pace to fit each person’s needs and life situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth work and skill teaching, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and short check-ins fit well via chat or messaging. These formats make it simpler to fit sessions into work days, travel, or busy schedules while keeping ongoing progress on track.
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