About Kristina
Kristina "Kris" Yates is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She brings two decades of clinical experience and a calm, steady presence to sessions.
Background and approach
Kris listens first and helps people sort what matters most right now. She focuses on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, LGBT concerns, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
Kris also addresses attachment and abandonment wounds, body image, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, and relationship communication problems. She helps people who struggle with guilt, shame, isolation, money stress, mood changes, and post-traumatic stress.
Kris uses a client-centered approach that starts with the person rather than a checklist. Sessions aim to create space to tell your story, name patterns, and build practical steps that fit everyday life.
She emphasizes strengths and small, sustainable changes rather than quick fixes. People can expect straightforward conversation and gentle reflection.
Kris pays attention to how past relationships shape current behavior and emotions. She supports clients through decision points like separation, forgiveness, and shifting roles that come with caregiving or health challenges.
Her work is grounded in 20 years of experience in California mental health settings. She encourages people to take the first step even when it feels hard, and she partners with them to set goals they can try between sessions.
Client-centered care through online therapy
Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's lived experience. The therapist offers a nonjudgmental space where clients lead the conversation, and the goal is to build on existing strengths to address stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.Kristina treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She works with clients to test what helps most, adjust techniques when needed, and set clear, achievable steps. Together they choose methods that match the client's goals and daily life constraints.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be a practical option when lower bandwidth is needed or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let clients share updates or process feelings between longer sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English