About Krista
Krista Arrington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with three decades of experience. She takes a straightforward, calm approach to therapy and focuses on clear goals and practical steps. She works with people coping with relationship strain, grief, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and other life changes.
Her style is direct and empathic. Sessions usually center on goal setting, problem solving, and tracking small changes that add up over time. Mindfulness exercises and cognitive techniques are used to help manage emotions and interrupt unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Krista's background includes community-based outpatient programs and work in public school settings. That variety gives her experience with learning differences, neuro-diverse learners, and special education dynamics. She often helps parents think through parenting challenges related to those issues.
She also supports people facing caregiving stress, bereavement, sleep problems, peri-menopause and menopause concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her work with hospice and end-of-life issues and with first responders informs a practical, steady approach to crisis and loss. In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral methods with mindfulness practices and family systems ideas.
Techniques are tailored to each person’s goals and daily life. Brief practices and a bit of humor are used to make strategies easy to try between appointments. People who choose her can expect clear direction, respectful listening, and collaborative planning.
Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits your needs.
How CBT and Mindfulness work online
Krista uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT sessions break problems into specific steps, teach practical skills, and include homework to try between meetings to build new habits.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness helps reduce reactivity, ease stress, and improve focus when emotions run high or sleep is disrupted.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist and client look at symptoms, goals, and daily routines to decide which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted as progress is tracked so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when video isn’t convenient or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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