About Kristin
Kristin Puleo is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for clients who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure which step to take next. Kristin brings 14 years of clinical experience and practical problem-solving to each session.
Her approach begins with listening to what feels hard right now. She aims to find the root of the problem and then build simple, realistic steps to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, coping skills, and ways to reduce unhelpful patterns that get in the way of daily life. Kristin uses a mix of methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and action, and attachment-based work to improve how people relate to others.
She also draws on dialectical strategies for emotional regulation and client-centered listening to keep the work grounded in each person's needs. Practical tools, gentle challenge, and a bit of humor are part of her style. Kristin can help with attention difficulties, trauma recovery, addiction concerns, identity questions, career stress, and caregiver strain among other issues.
She offers support for managing symptoms and for planning real change. Located in New York, Kristin works with people who want a clear plan and steady guidance. If someone is ready to address triggers, try new perspectives, and set reachable goals, she will collaborate to make that progress happen.
How Kristin's Approaches Work Online
Kristin frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. ACT is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure how to move forward in day-to-day life.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with practical habits that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT is often used for worry, sleep problems, and motivation challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristin will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then use methods that fit best. This is a collaborative process that may combine techniques over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit short check-ins or times when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English