About Kristin
Kristin Puleo is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected. She focuses on practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and restore energy. Kristin writes plainly and aims to make sessions feel manageable for someone browsing on a phone.
Clients often come with stress, racing thoughts, or trouble moving past old hurts. Kristin listens first, then helps people locate the source of discomfort. She uses a mix of body-centered awareness and talk-based tools to calm physical reactions and slow racing thinking.
Background and approach
Her approach blends Somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That means attention to how the body holds stress, helping clients notice current experience, and trying small behavior changes to build new habits. Sessions are paced to match what each person can handle.
Kristin leans on a client-centered stance and attachment-informed ideas when relationships and family dynamics are involved. She brings direct feedback when useful and keeps the tone warm, often using light humor to make difficult topics easier to face. With 14 years of practice, Kristin supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and addiction-related struggles.
She also addresses concerns like intimacy, parenting stress, chronic illness, and career or identity questions. Her license is New York LMHC 008692. People who want clear steps, gentle accountability, and a focus on both body and mind may find her style a good fit.
She works in English and accepts international clients for online sessions.
Approaches that translate to online care
Somatic work focuses on how the body holds stress and tension, guiding simple awareness and gentle movement to ease physical reactions. It can be helpful for anxiety, trauma reactions, and chronic stress by teaching ways to notice and shift bodily responses.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that align with personal values. It suits those wanting tools to handle difficult feelings while still moving toward meaningful goals.
Attachment-Based ideas and client-centered listening inform how sessions address relationship patterns. This helps people understand how past connections influence present reactions and try new ways of relating in everyday life.
Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. Kristin will review needs, goals, and preferences with each person and suggest approaches that can be blended over time. Together they’ll adjust methods based on what feels most useful and doable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity during life changes. Many people find that the combination of somatic noticing and practical exercises translates well to remote sessions and supports steady progress.
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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