Kristl Bray, LCSW
Practical support for strong emotions and transitions
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- ADHD
How Kristl works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Utah, Montana
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Kristl
Kristl Bray is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage strong emotions and life transitions. She focuses on practical steps people can use when anger, anxiety, or stress feel overwhelming. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making daily life easier to handle.
Kristl mixes evidence-based methods with a person-centered stance. She helps people identify unhelpful patterns and build new skills for coping, communicating, and regulating emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward tools for managing anger, improving sleep, and handling relationship or work stress. She has a long history of working with LGBTQ people and adults facing identity questions, career shifts, and grief. Her work also addresses ADHD, bipolar disorder, addictions, and compassion fatigue, with attention to how these issues affect day-to-day functioning.
Kristl pays close attention to attachment and relationship patterns that shape behavior. Kristl draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered care. That mix lets her tailor treatment to what each person needs and prefers.
She offers clear explanations and step-by-step practice between sessions. Kristl practices in Montana and conducts sessions in English. She accepts international clients and supports people dealing with parenting pressures, family conflict, intimacy concerns, body image, and many kinds of loss.
Her aim is to help people feel steadier and more able to meet life’s demands.
What Kristl works with
Everything Kristl lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Kristl's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kristl lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches for emotion regulation online
Kristl commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT helps people clarify their values and take action even when emotions are strong, which can reduce avoidance and improve focus on what matters. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers specific exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about goals, daily challenges, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she tailors techniques from ACT, CBT, DBT, and attachment-informed ideas so work in sessions matches each person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for longer therapy work and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, skill reminders, or people who prefer writing. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, travel, and family commitments.
Questions people ask about Kristl
What kinds of problems does Kristl help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, addictions, and career or identity transitions.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is person-centered and practical, combining compassionate listening with hands-on skills for regulating emotion and improving communication.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Kristl has practiced for 30 years, bringing long-term experience working with adults on identity, grief, work stress, and interpersonal problems.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) licensed in Montana; sessions are listed as provided from Montana.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats does she use?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.