Kristen Ayers

Kristen Ayers is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) in Ohio with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on grief, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and the emotional strain that comes with aging and caregiving. Her work often addresses anxiety, depression, bereavement, and relationship or family stress. Kristen uses a hands-on, interactive style in sessions. She offers reflective tasks between meetings to help people practice new skills. She also shares straightforward psycho-educational explanations so clients better understand how thoughts and behaviors influence mood. Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing to meet practical concerns. Sessions tend to focus on short-term tools for coping and clearer steps to move forward. She aims to help people identify manageable goals and small changes that add up. People describe her as nonjudgmental and direct; she invites clients to be active partners in care. That means she will ask questions, set tasks, and expect honest feedback as progress is tracked. The work can involve skill-building, reframing thoughts, and planning around caregiving or end-of-life decisions. Kristen notes a current technical issue preventing video chat for now and hopes to restore that option soon. Prospective clients should confirm available session formats when they schedule. She conducts services in English and practices across topics like compassion fatigue, life purpose, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety.

How her approaches translate to online care

Kristen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT often focuses on practical steps like testing assumptions and building new habits to reduce anxiety or lift mood.

She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change. This approach centers on listening, reflecting, and helping clients find their own reasons to move toward goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristen will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That conversation guides whether sessions lean more toward skill practice, problem solving, or motivational work.

At this time there is a technical issue affecting video chat, so please confirm which session formats are currently offered before scheduling. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Licensed professionals can still use these methods effectively by assigning between-session tasks, reviewing progress together, and focusing each meeting on clear, doable steps.