- Values focused
- Skills oriented
- Trauma informed
About Kristine
Kristine Gustafson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with 14 years of clinical experience. She uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She aims to create a welcoming, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what matters to them and start making small changes.
Kristine blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and client-centered listening to shape each session. She works with people facing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and challenges tied to identity and relationships. Coping with natural or human-caused disaster is one of the concerns she addresses when people need support after disruptive events.
Sessions focus on clear goals and practical skills. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try new actions, and build routines that fit daily life. Motivational Interviewing techniques are used when people want help finding internal motivation or making behavior changes.
Her background includes supporting people with addictions, ADHD, bipolar concerns, grief, and body image or eating issues. She also assists those dealing with career stress, parenting strain, sleep problems, and communication difficulties. The emphasis is on steady, manageable steps toward relief.
Kristine offers guidance for people facing complex health and caregiving needs, including chronic pain or illness and cancer-related stress. She works with clients to strengthen coping skills and reconnect with values and purpose. To begin, readers are asked to follow the site's steps to match with a therapist and schedule sessions.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Kristine often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. ACT focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while committing to action that fits personal goals and is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT gives concrete tools for managing anxiety, mood changes, and sleep or eating problems by changing patterns people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristine treats therapy as collaborative and will help clients choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path. This helps people stay engaged and try what feels doable.
The original biography does not specify which online session formats are offered. Please confirm available formats before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten commute time, and allow check-ins during a lunch break or between appointments. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework so clients can practice skills at home or during everyday routines.
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Experience
14+ years
Credentials
Missouri
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Kristine address?
She works with a broad range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, ADHD, and coping with natural or human-caused disaster.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and client-centered listening. Sessions emphasize practical skills, values-based goals, and steady behavior changes.
How much experience does she have?
Kristine brings 14 years of clinical experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor. That background includes work with people facing trauma, chronic health issues, and compassion fatigue.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds a Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor credential, listed as MO LPC, and practices from Missouri.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography did not list specific session formats. Please confirm the current session options before booking.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing depends on the match and plan selected.
How do I get started?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability. That process links you to the next scheduling steps.