About Kristin
Kristin Malaer is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who brings five years of clinical experience to her practice. She focuses on practical coping skills for stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Kristin uses a calm, straightforward style that emphasizes building on a person’s own strengths.
Before offering therapy she worked in medical social work roles supporting people with chronic illness and serious health events. That background influences how she frames emotional responses to medical challenges and long-term stress.
Background and approach
She draws on that experience when helping people manage caregiver strain and compassion fatigue. Her sessions tend to combine body-focused awareness with talk-based tools. Kristin uses Somatic approaches alongside cognitive-behavioral techniques and attachment-informed ideas.
She also incorporates client-centered listening and DBT strategies when helpful. People meet practical goals in brief, clear steps. Kristin encourages personal responsibility and helps people practice techniques between sessions.
She emphasizes simple routines for emotion regulation, boundaries, and communication skills. Kristin works with concerns such as addiction, relationship and family problems, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, depression, chronic pain or illness, and trauma and abuse. Her aim is steady progress through understandable methods and compassionate support.
How somatic and attachment work online
Kristin uses Somatic approaches to help people notice physical tension and learn gentle body-based ways to calm reactions. This can help when anxiety, chronic pain, or stress feel stuck in the body. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to understand how early relationships shape current patterns and to build healthier ways of connecting and communicating. Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to select methods that match their needs and goals. That collaborative planning can blend somatic practices, attachment ideas, and client-centered listening as needed. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist observe posture, facial expression, and movement while guiding breath and grounding techniques. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, and the ability to send written resources between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English