Kriss Light, LMFT

Kriss Light is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship strains. She offers straightforward support for issues like addiction, parenting challenges, sleep or eating concerns, and coping with big life changes. Kriss speaks in plain language and focuses on helping people make practical shifts that ease daily struggles.

With 15 years of experience in California, Kriss blends approaches to match each person's needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Attachment-based ideas are used to explore how early patterns affect current relationships.

Her style centers on listening first and then trying tools together that feel useful. Sessions can include talking through patterns, practicing new ways of reacting, and setting small, achievable goals. She also draws on client-centered principles to keep the work grounded in each person’s experience.

People come to Kriss for many things - trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue among them. She also addresses more specific themes such as abandonment, body image, codependency, and family of origin issues. Her approach aims to make difficult feelings easier to understand and manage.

Kriss offers phone, video, chat, and messaging options so people can choose what fits their life. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session. Her California license is LMFT, indicating she is a licensed marriage and family therapist.

How therapeutic approaches fit into online sessions

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. Online sessions can include practical exercises, thought records, and small homework tasks to try between meetings. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections. In remote sessions this work can involve mapping relationship styles and practicing new ways of relating to partners or family members in real time.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kriss will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as progress unfolds. That makes it easier to find what actually helps rather than committing to one way from the start.

Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let people work face to face when travel or schedules are difficult. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, written reflections, and flexible ways to stay connected between longer sessions. These options help people maintain therapy around busy lives and changing needs.