About Cristan
Cristan Steimel, LPC, focuses on concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and ADHD. She writes in plain terms and aims to help people find practical tools to manage daily life and feel steadier. Parents and adults will find straightforward strategies and emotional support during transitions and hard seasons.
Cristan favors short-term, goal-oriented work alongside deeper conversations about feelings and meaning. She uses methods that help people notice unhelpful patterns, try small changes, and build routines that actually fit their days.
Background and approach
Sessions often include mindfulness exercises and concrete planning for tasks and responsibilities. Her background includes five years of clinical practice in Texas as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Cristan has worked with people facing chronic medical issues, developmental and physical disabilities, and caregiving stress.
That experience shapes how she helps clients address practical barriers as well as emotional strain. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and step-by-step adjustments. She draws on client-centered listening to make space for each person’s priorities.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to change behaviors and thoughts that get in the way of daily functioning. People come to Cristan to build routines, reduce overwhelm, and strengthen relationships. She aims to leave clients with usable skills - scheduling strategies, coping plans, and ways to notice progress.
The work is collaborative and focused on what will help in everyday life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client’s lead. The therapist focuses on understanding your priorities and building sessions around what matters most to you, which helps when deciding practical goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and daily functioning. It offers clear tools for managing anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress by practicing small behavior changes and testing new routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That process might mean trying a few techniques and adjusting them based on what helps most.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules and varied needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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