Kristin Allen, LMHC

Kristin Allen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, and issues related to sexual orientation and identity. She brings 12 years of experience across private practice, community mental health, and inpatient settings. Kristin aims to make people feel understood before moving into problem solving.

She focuses on building a strong working relationship first. Kristin believes feeling safe and accepted makes change easier. From there she helps clients learn skills to cope with difficult feelings and life transitions.

Kristin uses practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy. She works step by step to increase self-awareness, reduce symptoms, and teach concrete coping tools for daily life.

Her practice also addresses identity and belonging. Kristin helps people explore sexuality and gender identity, work through shame or guilt, and strengthen self-compassion. She supports those struggling with loneliness, attachment worries, or relationship patterns.

She also assists with career concerns, money stress, midlife questions, and the emotional impact of mood disorders or trauma. Kristin balances skill-building with language that promotes acceptance and self-understanding.

Kristin sees therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people set clear goals, try new strategies, and adjust the plan as needed. Sessions are offered in English and conducted through video, phone, chat, or messaging.

How her approaches work online and what to expect

Kristin often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy combines mindful awareness with values-driven action to help people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristin treats the choice of methods as a collaboration and will help clients try different strategies based on their goals, preferences, and how they respond in sessions. Together they set goals, review progress, and adjust techniques as needed.

Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer written communication. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter touchpoints between sessions, and different ways to practice new skills.