About Kristyn
Kristyn Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and parenting pressures. She works with adults facing mood challenges, anger, low self-esteem, trauma, and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and respectful, focusing on what a person needs now.
She draws on five years of clinical experience in California and uses practical tools to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. Sessions often include skill practice, goal-setting, and checking what works between meetings.
How Kristyn works
Kristyn pays attention to how a person relates to others and to themselves, and she adjusts the pace to match each person’s tolerance and goals. Her approach blends acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused listening, and cognitive-behavioral strategies alongside mindfulness and client-centered support. That mix lets her address both immediate problem solving and longer patterns that affect mood and relationships.
She collaborates with other health professionals when a broader plan is helpful. People can expect clear, respectful feedback and help turning insights into everyday changes. She emphasizes hope, strengths, and practical steps that fit real life.
Kristyn aims to help people reconnect with purpose and steady routines. She remains engaged with research on complex and persistent mental health problems to inform her work. Her practice emphasizes individualized plans that reflect each person’s history, needs, and goals.
Kristyn lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kristyn works with
The areas below are the ones Kristyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- 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 | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Kristyn commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it emphasizes acting on personal values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which helps reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also uses attachment-informed listening and client-centered support to understand how relationship patterns affect mood and behavior. Those elements guide sessions toward safer ways of relating and clearer communication. Finding the right approach is a team effort - she works with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, needs, and what feels manageable in therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full session work and skill practice, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option for focused conversations, and chat or text are helpful for brief check-ins or homework support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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