Kirsten King, LCPC

Kirsten King is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with more than two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. Her work also addresses issues such as ADHD, anger, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue, as well as concerns related to aging and geriatric issues.

She uses straightforward, calm conversation to help people sort through overwhelming feelings. Sessions emphasize practical steps and simple tools that can be used between meetings. Kirsten aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly and try out new ways of handling problems.

Her background includes long experience in community and rural settings, which informs a down-to-earth style. She brings familiarity with family conflict, domestic violence impacts, and the stresses that surround caregiving and chronic health problems. That experience helps her notice patterns that get in the way of day-to-day functioning.

Kirsten draws on a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She may use acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and attachment-focused work to improve close relationships. She also brings skills from dialectical behavior strategies and client-centered practice.

People who prefer calm, steady guidance and clear steps to try between sessions often do best with her approach. She works with clients across a range of concerns and focuses on what helps someone move forward in daily life.

How Kirsten’s approaches fit into online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters most and take small actions that line up with those values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and major life changes when someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change behavior and mood. CBT is often helpful for depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication, which can help with relationship strain and healing after trauma.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as current options are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time for people in rural areas. It also lets people use methods like skills practice, thought records, and values-based exercises in between meetings to help progress continue outside sessions.