About Kristen
Kristen Lewis is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and brings a calm, practical style to sessions. Kristen believes each person knows their story best and builds on their existing strengths to make change feel possible.
She often helps people who are dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She also supports those facing relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, addictions, and career questions.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real steps people can try between meetings, not just talk. Kristen draws from several approaches to match what a person needs. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s goals, cognitive behavioral tools to address thinking and behavior patterns, and motivational interviewing to help with readiness for change.
Those methods shape practical strategies for daily life. People meet her for straightforward conversations about past hurts, managing anger, difficult sleep, or the strain of caregiving. Kristen listens without judgment and helps set clear, manageable goals.
She prefers to keep plans concrete so progress is easier to notice. Taking a first step can feel risky, and Kristen aims to make that step small and achievable. She works with adults seeking support for stress, identity questions, coping with life changes, and rebuilding after loss.
Her approach is steady, respectful, and focused on what helps people move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Kristen uses client-centered therapy to shape sessions around each person’s goals. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to you, and helping you decide what to work on next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another tool she uses to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to improve mood and daily functioning. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change by exploring readiness and building motivation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristen will talk with you about your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest methods to try. She checks in as work progresses and adjusts the focus based on what helps most for your situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets you see facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to use video. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, practicing skills, or shorter coaching-style conversations. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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