Therapist profile
Kristin Petersen, LICSW
Minnesota
LICSW - Stress and Addiction support
Continue with KristinWhere Kristin stands
- Credentials
- LICSW
- License
- LICSW, Minnesota / 21218
- NPI
- 1710422779
- Experience
- 13 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Minnesota
About
- CBT techniques
- Solution-focused work
- Client-centered care
About Kristin
Kristin Petersen is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Minnesota with 13 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, parenting challenges, sleep problems, and attention-related concerns among other issues. Kristin uses straightforward, practical therapy to address what feels most urgent for each person.
Her style is interactive and reflective. Sessions focus on identifying patterns that keep someone stuck and practicing different ways to respond. Kristin brings approaches such as cognitive behavioral work, solution-focused strategies, and client-centered conversations into sessions so people can test small changes between meetings.
Kristin has supported people with substance use, mood disorders, postpartum depression, grief, self-harm, and trauma from abuse. She also helps with workplace stress, compassion fatigue, impulse control, and challenges that often follow major life changes. Codependency and attachment concerns are among the additional areas she pays attention to when they come up.
In practical terms she works with clients to reduce distressing symptoms and strengthen coping skills. That may mean noticing automatic thoughts, trying brief behavioral experiments, or clarifying immediate goals and steps to reach them. Sessions are collaborative and aim to build skills that people can use day to day.
To begin, she asks clients to set clear, achievable goals and to try small changes between sessions. Kristin frames the work as step-by-step problem solving combined with reflective conversation to help people regain steadiness and clearer control over their choices.
How sessions work
How Kristin’s approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. It helps people clarify their values and goals while the therapist follows the client’s lead. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thoughts and behaviors. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and impulse-related problems. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to explore readiness for change and to strengthen motivation for issues like substance use or habit change.Kristin will work with each person to find which approach fits best. She treats this as a collaborative process - she and the client try things, check how they feel, and adjust methods based on progress and preferences. That collaborative testing helps set realistic short-term goals and practical steps between sessions.
Confirm the therapist's available session formats before booking, since the profile does not list specific options. In practice, offering sessions in flexible ways can help people fit therapy into busy lives - for example shorter check-ins on a break, sessions that avoid video, or longer weekly meetings when more time is needed. Online work can make it easier to keep appointments around work, caregiving, or travel without promising a particular format.
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Experience
13+ years
Listed in
Minnesota
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship strain, parenting and sleep problems, among other issues listed in her profile.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is interactive and reflective, combining client-centered talk with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques to target immediate problems and skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has provided individual and group psychotherapy for nearly 13 years in clinical settings.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (MN LICSW) practicing in Minnesota.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are used?
Confirm the current session options before booking since specific formats are not listed in the profile.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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