About Kristl
Kristl Bray is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and the challenges that come with life transitions. Her work emphasizes respectful listening and practical steps people can use right away.
She creates an affirming space for people exploring identity and relationship concerns, including LGBT issues and intimacy-related worries. Sessions often address communication problems, career strain, sleep trouble, and grief.
Background and approach
Kristl combines straightforward talk with exercises that build coping skills and emotional insight. Her background spans many clinical approaches, so she pulls tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy when those fit. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to strengthen relationships and self-understanding.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed. Kristl has worked across a wide range of life situations, such as adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and recovery from loss or separation. She helps people facing addictions, codependency, or sexual identity and kink-related questions with a nonjudgmental stance.
Her long practice in Montana informs a practical outlook on problem solving. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works with adults seeking clearer direction, improved coping, and steadier relationships.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with stress, sleep problems, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristl will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they review what’s helping and adjust the plan over time so the therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions can fit many schedules and life situations. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, notes between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Montana
- Languages
- English
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