Kristi Heritage, LPC

Kristi Heritage, LPC, helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, substance use, and midlife concerns. She speaks plainly and offers a calm, warm presence to guide people through hard moments. Her approach aims to meet each person where they are and to build practical steps forward.

Kristi draws on about six years of counseling practice in Missouri. She focuses on trauma, crisis response, and addiction work, while also helping people with depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, and career strain. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving burdens, and life changes like separation or blended family transitions.

Sessions are interactive and respectful. Kristi uses a client-centered style that keeps each conversation grounded in the person’s needs. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot patterns and try new responses, and she incorporates motivational interviewing to strengthen goals and commitment.

Kristi has experience with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, which she uses with some clients who have trauma history. Mindfulness practices are offered as simple, practical skills to reduce overwhelm and increase focus. Together these approaches are blended into a tailored plan rather than a one-size-fits-all program.

She encourages live sessions for focused time together and aims to be flexible about scheduling. To start, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step helps connect people to a session that fits their timing and needs.

How Kristi’s approaches translate to online work

Kristi uses client-centered work to keep conversations focused on what matters to the person. That means sessions begin with listening, clarifying priorities, and shaping goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thought and behavior patterns and then tries small experiments to change them, which can be practiced between sessions.

She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming. These are taught in short, usable steps that can be reviewed during online meetings and practiced in real life. The therapist aims to match approaches to each person's needs rather than applying one fixed method, and this is decided together in the first few sessions.

Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity between appointments. It can reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. The biography does not list specific session formats for all situations, so confirm current options before booking. The therapist will help pick an approach and a session rhythm that fits each client's goals and daily routine.