About Krista
Krista Spaeth is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, self-esteem struggles, and LGBTQ-related concerns. She greets clients with straightforward, respectful care and aims to make first steps feel manageable.
Background and approach
Krista writes treatment plans to match each person’s situation and goals. Krista has six years of clinical experience working with relationship and family conflicts.
She listens for patterns that keep people stuck, such as attachment or communication problems, and focuses on practical ways to change them. Sessions are collaborative and geared toward skills people can use between meetings.
She also supports people dealing with issues like guilt and shame, isolation or loneliness, life purpose questions, and mood concerns. When separation or divorce comes up, she helps people sort priorities and cope with transition.
Krista pays attention to family of origin and how past hurts show up in current relationships. Her approach centers on respectful, sensitive listening and tailoring conversations to each client.
That often means breaking down big problems into smaller, doable goals. She encourages experimentation with new ways of relating and managing emotions.
Krista works from Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English. She offers a mix of formats so clients can choose what fits their routines.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and Krista aims to make that step feel safer and more practical.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Krista uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on relationships and emotion regulation. One approach she leans on helps people recognize attachment patterns - how early relationships shape current reactions - and then practices new ways of connecting and setting boundaries. This approach can be useful for communication problems, feelings of abandonment, and trust issues.She also emphasizes skill-focused work for anxiety and mood concerns, teaching concrete tools for managing stress and low mood. These techniques break overwhelming problems into steps, such as short grounding exercises, paced breathing, and small behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Krista will talk with each person about their goals, try strategies that fit their life, and adjust plans as progress is made. She invites clients to give feedback so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on making useful changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English