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Kristin Neal

Compassionate therapist guiding practical, healing change

LCSW Oklahoma

Experience
11 years in practice
Focus areas
Relationship, Trauma and abuse, Self esteem
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Jungian Therapy
Languages
English
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About Kristin

Kristin Neal is an Oklahoma-licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing relationship struggles, trauma, mood concerns, and major life changes. With 11 years of practice, she supports clients working to strengthen self-esteem, manage anxiety and stress, and navigate grief, parenting challenges, or issues with intimacy and addiction.

Background and approach

Kristin blends practical skills training with deeper exploration so clients can build more resilient daily routines and healthier ways of relating. Her counseling style emphasizes collaboration and compassionate curiosity, inviting clients to examine patterns that maintain distress while learning new strategies for coping.

She draws on several therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and trauma-focused methods, tailoring interventions to each person's needs. Kristin also addresses additional areas such as attachment and adoption-related concerns, caregiver stress, and family or communication problems.

Kristin aims to help clients reconnect with personal strengths and move toward meaningful change through a mix of short-term problem solving and longer-term exploration. Her practice is oriented toward practical tools, improved communication, and healing from past wounds, with attention to career stress, sleep difficulties, ADHD-related concerns, and emotional regulation.

Working Online with Evidence-Informed Therapies

Kristin commonly draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused Therapy when working with clients online. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression and to improve daily functioning. Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on processing and resolving the effects of past traumatic events while building coping strategies for current triggers and emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristin will work with each person to explore goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, combining brief solution-oriented techniques with deeper psychodynamic or trauma work when appropriate. This flexible stance lets the treatment plan evolve as needs change.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase accessibility and scheduling flexibility. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life, continue care during transitions, and maintain momentum between sessions while working toward emotional wellbeing.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with a broad range of issues including relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, stress, self-esteem, parenting and intimacy-related problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach balances compassionate exploration with practical skill-building, using collaborative work to identify patterns and introduce tools for coping and communication.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 11 years of experience practicing as a licensed clinician and has worked with clients on a range of mood, relational and trauma-related concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she licensed?
Kristin holds an LCSW and is licensed in Oklahoma with license number OK LCSW 5312.
Does she work in other languages or accept international clients?
She provides services in English and is not currently accepting international clients.
In what formats are sessions available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging according to availability.
How are fees and payment handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesDepressionADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)Divorce and separationDomestic violenceEmptinessFamily problemsFatherhood issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityIntellectual disabilityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Jungian TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

11+ years

Licensed

Oklahoma

Languages

English