About Kristina
Kristina Bravo is a licensed marriage and family therapist working in Texas with 21 years of professional experience. She speaks English and brings a calm, attentive presence to sessions.
Background and approach
Her style aims to make hard conversations feel more manageable for people facing relationship strain, trauma, identity questions, or major life changes. She uses a blend of body-focused and talk approaches that recognize how feelings live in the body as well as the mind.
Sessions often include breathing practices, grounding exercises, and attention to physical sensations alongside discussion. This helps when anxiety, panic, or past hurts show up in the body as well as thoughts.
Kristina draws on a wide range of influences from western psychology, depth psychologies, and contemplative practices such as Vipassana meditation and yoga. She also attends to cultural and ancestral dynamics that shape a person’s experience, including Mexican and African Indigenous spiritual perspectives when relevant to the client.
Clients can expect a respectful, curious companion who listens for patterns in relationships, attachment, and family history. She addresses communication problems, guilt and shame, mood concerns, social anxiety, and issues related to sexuality and identity.
Work may move between exploring early family of origin material and learning practical ways to cope in daily life. Kristina offers flexible formats for sessions including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, individuals complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Approaches that connect body, history, and relationship
Kristina blends talk-based methods with body-centered practices that help people notice how emotions show up physically. She may introduce simple breathwork or grounding exercises to reduce moments of panic and to help track where tension lives in the body. These techniques can be useful for panic, somatic symptoms, and stress brought on by trauma.She also works with depth-oriented ideas that look at family of origin, attachment patterns, and intergenerational dynamics. This kind of work helps when relationship patterns repeat or when past hurts keep resurfacing. Sessions can move between discussing stories and trying small experiments in communication and boundaries to change day-to-day behavior.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, try methods together, and adjust based on what helps the client meet their goals. Clients are invited to share preferences so therapy fits their needs and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual connection and nonverbal cues matter. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and may fit a short break during the day. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, processing between sessions, or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to maintain regular work regardless of location or schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English