About Kristy
Kristy Gehling is a licensed social worker in Kansas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. She emphasizes practical steps and builds on each person’s strengths. Kristy speaks plainly and aims to make getting help feel less overwhelming for a worried parent or caregiver.
She focuses on everyday challenges like parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, motivation, and depression. ADHD is listed among her areas of focus and she also supports people facing grief, trauma, relationship and family tension, and issues around intimacy and body image.
Background and approach
Her background includes six years of clinical experience as a KS LSCSW, which informs her straightforward style. Kristy uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and practice different choices. She also draws on motivational interviewing to strengthen clients’ own reasons for change and solution-focused techniques to set short-term, achievable goals.
Sessions are geared toward concrete steps you can try between meetings. Conversations aim to identify barriers, build skills for managing impulses and mood, and improve communication. Kristy encourages small experiments and practical plans that fit daily life.
Her approach is collaborative and nonjudgmental. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them find what works. For someone juggling parenting pressures, mood swings, or attention difficulties, she offers clear strategies and steady support.
How Kristy uses practical therapies online
Kristy often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and habits, then practice new actions that change how they feel and behave. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many mood or attention-related challenges.She also applies acceptance and commitment therapy, which teaches simple mindfulness skills and helps people choose actions that match their values even when feelings are difficult. ACT can be helpful for stress, chronic worry, and motivation problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristy discusses goals and preferences with each person and tailors techniques to fit their life and needs. She invites clients to test ideas and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy days. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options give flexibility for scheduling, quick follow-ups, and steady momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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