About Kriss
Kriss Light is a licensed marriage and family therapist who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by life changes, loss, stress, anxiety, or grief. She writes simply and listens closely so clients can name what matters and start to make sense of painful patterns.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that center relationships and emotional experience. Sessions tend to focus on how early attachments shape current reactions, and on practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage anger, or improve sleep and eating concerns.
Kriss uses clear language and a steady presence to help people sort through difficult feelings. Kriss has worked in the field for 15 years and practices in California as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
Her background includes long study of personality, attachment, and emotional processing, and she brings that experience to everyday problems like parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
In sessions she may combine focused exercises with open conversation so clients can try new ways of responding and see what fits. Kriss offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She recommends a first short conversation to make sure the match feels right and to plan the next steps.
How attachment and emotion work in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and connection patterns; online work can help people notice those patterns in daily life and try new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy, giving clients space to lead sessions while the therapist reflects and helps clarify emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers straightforward tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions to improve mood, sleep, and stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Kriss will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The work is a team effort where feedback shapes the next steps.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging can help with ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English