Kristine Gustafson, LPC

Kristine Gustafson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 14 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and anger. Kristine also addresses relationship and career concerns and supports people managing addictions and ADHD.

She uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. Sessions include practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness techniques alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Conversations are client-centered and focused on what helps a person cope and move forward.

Kristine has particular experience with compassion fatigue and chronic illness. She often helps caregivers, people facing major life changes, and those dealing with grief or chronic pain. Her background includes supervising other counselors in Missouri.

In a session she works to identify unhelpful patterns and to build small, achievable changes. That can mean practicing new ways to respond when anger spikes, learning attention skills for anxiety, or reshaping thoughts that deepen depression. Sessions typically balance skills practice with time to reflect.

She frames goals in everyday terms like improving sleep, reducing snapping at loved ones, handling stress at work, or making steady progress toward a career shift. Practical steps, repeated practice, and clear next actions are common parts of the work Kristine does with clients.

How her approaches translate to online sessions