- CBT techniques
- Attachment focus
- Mindfulness skills
About Kristin
Kristin Malaer is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker licensed in Texas with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, life changes, addiction, and relationship and family concerns. Kristin is also attentive to attachment and abandonment issues and lists blended family issues among her areas of focus.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify immediate stressors and coping gaps. Sessions tend to mix practical skills with talking through feelings. Kristin draws on cognitive-behavioral methods and mindfulness to spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses in daily life.
Kristin also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas when relationships or past losses are part of the problem. That helps when patterns from earlier relationships show up in current partnerships or parenting roles. She aims to notice how past hurts affect present choices and to build clearer communication habits.
In work with grief, chronic illness, or compassion fatigue she prioritizes concrete tools for pacing, boundary-setting, and managing symptoms day to day. For people facing life transitions she helps create small steps toward practical routines and decisions that feel doable.
Her style is direct and accountability-oriented. Clients can expect a therapist who listens, gives feedback, and adjusts the work based on what helps. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Kristin uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns. CBT sessions typically involve identifying specific thoughts, testing them, and practicing different responses between meetings.She also draws on attachment-based work, which looks at how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and behavior. That approach can help when loyalty conflicts, trust issues, or role confusion appear in blended households.
Finding the right method is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to pick approaches that match their goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. That often means combining skills-based practice with exploration of relationship patterns.
Confirm the current session formats before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They can also let someone join from wherever they have a quieter setting or when scheduling around family routines is important.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she address?
She addresses stress, anxiety, grief, compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and family concerns, and related issues such as attachment and blended family issues.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach combines practical skills training with talking through feelings. Expect feedback, goal-setting, and techniques drawn from cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness work.
What is her clinical background?
She holds five years of clinical experience as an LCSW in Texas and has focused work with people facing grief, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue.
Where is she licensed to practice?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Texas and offers services based on that licensure.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is for adults and is not emergency care, mediation or legal advice. If you or a child are in danger, use the emergency numbers. Find someone else by name.