Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Kristy works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Kristy
Kristy Dandridge-Clark is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She brings 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and depression. She aims to make it easier to take the first step toward change by offering straightforward support and steady guidance.
She focuses on practical problem solving in a calm, nonjudgmental space. Sessions are built around what the client needs that week. Kristy listens, reflects back what she hears, and helps people find steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes broad work with relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges related to identity and intimacy. She also supports people facing career decisions, life transitions, and compassion fatigue. That variety has given her tools for short-term coping and longer-term growth.
Kristy works with adults to address communication problems, impulsivity, control issues, and difficulties tied to blended families or aging concerns. She has experience with clients navigating BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture and with people living with HIV/AIDS. Her approach adapts to each person’s situation and goals.
In sessions she often combines clear goal-setting with practical coaching. Clients can expect straightforward feedback, paced skill-building, and attention to daily routines that affect mood and behavior. She welcomes people who want help sorting priorities, repairing relationships, or managing strong emotions like anger.
Kristy offers services in English and accepts international clients. Her practice includes multiple online session formats to fit busy schedules and varied needs.
What Kristy works with
Everything Kristy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Kristy's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches and online options for managing strong emotions
Kristy draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage intense feelings and improve everyday functioning. One common approach she uses focuses on teaching practical coping skills for stress and anger - skills include breathing and grounding exercises, stepwise problem solving, and ways to notice triggers so reactions can be chosen rather than automatic. These tools suit people who want concrete strategies to reduce reactivity and handle conflict more calmly.She also emphasizes skill-building for relationships and communication. That work covers clear expression of needs, setting boundaries, and practicing new ways to respond in difficult conversations. This can help with intimacy-related issues, blended family stress, and repairing trust after conflict.
Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. Kristy will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their pace, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients decide what feels most useful and Kristy helps track small changes over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide flexible, on-the-go ways to process feelings between scheduled meetings. These formats aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
Questions people ask about Kristy
What kinds of problems does Kristy help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy and identity.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and nonjudgmental. She listens carefully, sets achievable goals, and offers steps to try between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
Kristy has 20 years of professional experience working with a wide range of adult concerns and life transitions.
Where is Kristy licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Kristy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.