Therapist profile
Chrystal Allen, LMHC, LPC
New Jersey
Licensed counselor for relationships and anxiety
Continue with ChrystalWhere Chrystal stands
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- License
- LPC, New Jersey / 37PC00708300; LMHC, New York / 007104
- NPI
- 1235581448
- Experience
- 12 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- New Jersey
About
- CBT tools
- Emotion regulation
- Attachment work
About Chrystal
Chrystal Allen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 12 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, family conflict, and major life changes. Her background also includes work around attachment wounds, codependency, blended family challenges, and issues like guilt, shame, and infidelity.
Her approach blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Existential Therapy. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and build small, practical skills for regulating emotion and managing reactions. She also helps people name patterns that keep them prioritizing others to their own cost and practices clearer communication and boundary-setting.
Chrystal frames work around exploring values and life purpose when people are stuck during transitions. She uses CBT tools to test and change thinking that fuels anxiety or self-blame. DBT-informed skills are used to manage intense emotions and reduce reactivity in relationships.
Sessions tend to focus on concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Those steps include behavioral experiments, communication rehearsal, and short coping exercises to practice when stress spikes. She encourages clients to reflect on what matters to them and to try small shifts that feel doable.
Chrystal holds licenses in New York and New Jersey and draws on a dozen years of clinical experience. Prospective clients should confirm current session formats before booking.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Chrystal often uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as core tools online. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and reflecting so clients can name what matters and feel understood. That approach helps people clarify values and make decisions during life changes.CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different responses. Online sessions can include structured exercises, thought records, and behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and change reactive patterns. DBT elements add short skills practice for tolerating intense emotions and improving communication skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals and what feels useful. That might mean a primarily CBT plan for testing thoughts, or an existential focus on meaning and purpose alongside skill-building.
The biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Ask about which formats are being offered so you can pick what fits your schedule and needs.
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Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
12+ years
Listed in
New Jersey, New York
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, family conflict, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include codependency, attachment issues, infidelity, and blended family problems.
How would she approach people-pleasing and boundary problems?
She combines Client-Centered ideas with CBT and DBT skills to notice patterns, practice boundary language, and build emotion regulation strategies. Sessions include practical exercises to try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 12 years of professional experience working with adults on relationship and mood concerns. That experience includes work with attachment wounds and issues related to fatherhood and men's concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LMHC and an LPC licensed in New York and New Jersey and practices out of New Jersey.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats does she provide?
Her biography does not list specific session formats. Confirm the current session options before booking so you know whether video or phone sessions are offered.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Check the platform details for exact pricing information.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session. That process starts the match and booking steps.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.