Kirsten Probst-Santha, LCSW

Kirsten Probst-Santha is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, and big life changes. She supports parenting concerns, relationship struggles, mood challenges, and the emotional fallout from trauma and grief. Kirsten writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person.

She uses a collaborative, client-centered style. Sessions focus on building emotional regulation and practical coping skills. Kirsten draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused work to help people notice patterns and try new responses.

Her background includes work across school, residential, and community-based settings where she supported people through crisis and transitions. That experience influences a hands-on approach that balances skill-building with emotional support.

Kirsten also addresses issues like parenting strain, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family tensions, caregiver stress, and complications around fertility and immigration. She brings attention to communication problems, grief, anger, and challenges tied to neurodiversity such as autism and ADHD.

People who choose Kirsten can expect short-term goals mixed with deeper exploration as needed. She aims for clear steps you can try between sessions. To start, she encourages a simple first contact and a brief matching conversation to see if it feels like a good fit.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Client-centered therapy puts your goals and perspective first. The therapist focuses on hearing your experience and following your lead, helping you build self-understanding and direction for change.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. These tools are useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone wants steadier coping during crises and big transitions.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kirsten will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made and new challenges arise.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into daily life, such as shorter check-ins during a work break or video sessions when travel is difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, DBT, and client-centered methods to the online setting so people can practice skills and talk through problems without changing other parts of their routine.