Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
How Kristen works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Massachusetts, Rhode Island
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Kristen
Kristen Wells is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, substance use concerns, and mood challenges. She works with adults facing relationship problems, grief, parenting strain, career questions, and major life changes. Kristen also supports people navigating identity questions, trauma, and self-esteem struggles.
Kristen uses straightforward, evidence-based approaches to help people develop practical coping skills. Sessions focus on clear goals, skill-building, and learning ways to respond differently to old patterns.
Background and approach
She often blends short-term strategies with deeper work on attachment, abandonment wounds, and communication problems. Her background includes a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Counseling Psychology.
Kristen spent early years as a social worker and has provided therapy to adults for over a decade, bringing a mix of community and clinical experience to sessions. She has substantial experience addressing substance use and relapse prevention, including group-based anger management work and motivational interviewing techniques.
Clients may work on impulse control, triggers for anger, or building routines that reduce cravings and risky behavior. Kristen frames therapy as collaborative work. She invites people who are ready to look honestly at patterns and make changes.
Sessions aim to teach tools that can be used between meetings to manage day-to-day stressors and long-term goals.
What Kristen works with
Everything Kristen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Kristen's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Kristen uses practical, evidence-based techniques that help people change how they respond to strong emotions and cravings. Cognitive-behavioral strategies focus on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; these techniques teach specific skills for managing anger, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Motivational interviewing is used to build readiness for change around substance use and other behaviors; it relies on gentle questioning to help people find their own reasons to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristen will collaborate with each person to test methods and see what fits their goals and daily life. Together they set clear aims and track progress, shifting tactics when something isn’t working and reinforcing what helps.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coping prompts, or flexible check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and to continue skill practice over time.
Questions people ask about Kristen
What concerns does Kristen address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, anger, addictions, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and family problems, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and related concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented. She combines skill teaching with deeper work on attachment and communication issues.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
Kristen has 15 years of overall experience, including early work as a social worker and many years providing adult therapy and group work for anger management and relapse prevention.
What credentials and region are listed?
She holds an MA and is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - practicing in Massachusetts.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Kristen offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different preferences and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.