About Crystal
Crystal Bartlett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Oregon with 20 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, ADHD, and related struggles. Crystal focuses on helping people find steady ways to cope and move forward.
She has extensive experience supporting survivors of interpersonal violence, sexual assault, and attachment-related woundings from family of origin problems. She has also worked with many people who live with substance use challenges alongside other concerns.
Background and approach
This background shapes a practical, grounded approach to care. Crystal centers the relationship between therapist and client. She treats the person as the expert on their life and offers therapeutic tools, perspective, and lived experience to support change.
Sessions are meant to be a place for honest conversation, curiosity, and learning new skills. Her practice combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness. She uses these tools to help people manage symptoms, handle intense emotions, and build healthier habits over time.
People who reach out can expect clear collaboration about goals and practical steps. Crystal emphasizes small, doable changes that fit into daily life. She also pays attention to relationship patterns, attachment wounds, and how past hurt shows up in the present.
Work can include addressing communication problems, codependency, commitment concerns, and recovery from sexual assault or other trauma. Crystal aims to help each person find more balance, clearer boundaries, and a greater sense of agency.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Crystal uses client-centered therapy to focus conversations on each person's priorities and strengths, helping them feel heard and understood while deciding what to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to practice clearer, more adaptive responses to stress and mood problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Crystal will collaborate with clients to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She often mixes approaches and adjusts them over time so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing reflection, brief coaching, and check-ins between sessions, making it simpler to maintain momentum during busy weeks.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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