Kristen Weick (she/her)

Although I am a cisgender woman, I have been providing gender-affirming therapy to gender expansive / transgender / gender questioning clients since 2013, and over the years, this population has constituted the majority of my clients.

I have experience with and enjoy providing therapy to the polyamorous / non-monogamous community & would love to work with you individually or in relationship. Any fellow Multiamory podcast fans out there?

CBT has a lot of research behind it, and I almost always include a mindfulness aspect to the way I help people via CBT. If we use the basis of mindfulness on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, in my experience, in can increase positive outcomes. I wasn't able to choose it on this site, but another primary type of therapy I do is Strengths-Based Therapy. We come up with things that have worked for you in the past, or even just a little bit currently, and find ways to amplify those skills.

I enjoy teaching effective communication skills to people in relationships, so while I can be the one to initially help guide conversations between partners, eventually clients will be able to use the skills on their own. I often work with people in non-monogamous relationships, but those skills can help clients in any relationship format.

When we learned about person-centered / humanistic theory in grad school, I knew this would be one of my greatest strengths as a counselor. It is what comes naturally and easily to me, and learning and implementing it as a theoretical basis for counseling had been very powerful. It is at the core of what so many of my clients need in their healing and/or growth journey.

I have worked with people in the entire LGBTQIA+ spectrum since 2013, and it is the population I initially went to grad school to learn how to become a counselor to. I want to also make it clear that I use the "A" in my acronym because I have experience and include the asexual / aromantic spectrum in my practice, as well as the "I" for intersex clients.