Kristen Lewis, LCSW, CSW

Kristen Lewis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Clinical Social Worker (CSW) with nine years of experience. She practices in Colorado and helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem challenges, depression, grief, trauma and codependency patterns.

She focuses on straightforward conversation and practical steps. Kristen is direct and approachable and believes a reliable therapeutic relationship makes it easier to try new ways of coping. She talks with clients about what keeps them stuck and pairs talking with action toward agreed goals.

In sessions she uses several evidence-based methods. Kristen draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice hard thoughts and still act in line with their values. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at how early relationships shape current patterns, including people-pleasing or trouble saying no.

Kristen also works with skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Her approach is practical - identifying one change at a time that fits daily life. She aims to help clients build clearer boundaries, communicate more directly, and regain a sense of agency after loss or chronic stress.

People who reach out are usually looking for steady guidance and concrete tools. To begin, she asks about current struggles, what has or hasn’t worked before, and what a reasonable first step would look like.

How Kristen uses online tools with ACT and attachment work