Therapist profile
Krista McClinton, LPC
LPC in Colorado - Parenting and family concerns
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- Stress and anxiety
- Parenting support
- CBT and mindfulness
About Krista
Krista McClinton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on common home and life stresses including anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting challenges. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, family concerns, and changes in work or life direction.
Krista uses straightforward talk and practical tools. She treats clients as the expert on their own story and helps them apply their existing strengths to current problems. Sessions focus on clear goals, short-term strategies, and steady progress rather than vague promises.
Her approach draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, and mindfulness practices. That means sessions often explore how thoughts and behaviors link to feelings, try brief experiments between meetings, and build simple mindfulness skills for handling difficult moments. Solution-focused elements help keep sessions action-oriented and goal driven.
People commonly bring concerns such as parenting strain, coping with grief, low self-esteem, ADHD challenges, work stress, and mood problems like bipolar disorder or seasonal affective disorder. Krista also addresses issues such as communication breakdowns, divorce and separation, first responder stress, and workplace difficulties.
She works in English and accepts international clients. The initial steps are a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a first session. Krista aims for clear, manageable steps that fit into everyday life.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to remote sessions
Krista commonly integrates client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness techniques. Client-centered work means the conversation follows the adult's priorities and uses their own experience to guide decisions. Cognitive behavioral work looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and includes practical exercises to try between sessions. Mindfulness practice focuses on simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve present-moment awareness.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Krista collaborates with each person to identify goals and preferences, and then adjusts tools and pacing based on what fits those needs. The early sessions often review what has worked before and set a few concrete, achievable steps.
Confirm the available session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - it can remove travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a break, or reduce the need to take a full day off work. Therapists and licensed professionals commonly use those practical benefits to help sustain steady progress while addressing parenting stress, anxiety, grief, or workplace difficulties.
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Experience
23+ years
Listed in
Colorado
Languages
English
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What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, self-esteem, depression, and a range of family and relationship concerns.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and person-focused, using client-centered conversations alongside CBT, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to set concrete goals.
How much experience does she have?
Krista has 23 years of professional experience working with people on mood, relationship, and life-transition issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Colorado and practices from that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the profile does not specify which formats are offered.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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