Kris Horton, LIMHP

Kris Horton is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) in Nebraska with 17 years of experience. She centers therapy on practical strategies so people can manage worry, low mood, and strong emotions more effectively.

Kris often uses clear, skills-based approaches that help people notice thoughts, change unhelpful patterns, and build better ways to cope. She works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and healing after traumatic events. Communication problems, guilt and shame, and forgiveness are also common topics in her sessions.

Sessions are designed to be collaborative. Kris treats each person as the expert in their own life and helps them shape goals that feel meaningful and doable. She offers straightforward tools and practices to try between meetings so progress can continue outside the session.

Her style is practical and supportive. Kris focuses on small changes that add up over time, and she helps people track what works and what needs adjusting. For those dealing with intense emotions or repeated negative thinking, she brings techniques that target moment-to-moment coping and long-term behavior change.

Kris provides services through online formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. If someone is ready to begin, the typical first steps are a short questionnaire and then scheduling a session based on mutual availability.

Practical CBT and DBT tools for online care

Kris draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT often involves simple, step-by-step exercises that target worry, low mood, and social anxiety by changing how someone thinks and what they do day to day.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. DBT techniques can be useful when feelings feel overwhelming or when someone wants concrete strategies for handling intense moments and improving communication.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kris will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, and then recommend techniques to try together. The plan can be adjusted over time based on what feels most helpful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls work well for longer sessions and face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option, and chat or text can suit brief check-ins or ongoing skills coaching between meetings. These formats make it simpler to use therapy regularly and stay consistent with practice.