Kirsten Berlin, LPC

Kirsten Berlin approaches therapy with a belief that people can create meaningful change when they recognize and build on their own strengths and learn to trust themselves. She creates a warm, trusting environment where individuals can explore challenges, grow, and develop new coping strategies. Drawing on training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused work, and Mindfulness techniques, she adapts her methods to match each person’s needs and preferences.

She earned a Master of Science in mental health counseling in 2015, graduating summa cum laude, and holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor. Her clinical background includes work in hospital settings performing behavioral health assessments and providing crisis intervention, stabilization, treatment planning, and discharge planning. In individual therapy she has supported people facing depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma and abuse, domestic violence, neglect, substance use concerns, body image and self-esteem struggles, suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dementia, and chronic medical conditions.

Kirsten aims to tailor each therapeutic plan to practical goals clients bring to sessions, whether that means addressing sleep and stress, navigating relationship or parenting difficulties, coping with life transitions, or building skills for mood management and impulse control. Her style emphasizes collaboration, skill-building, and evidence-informed techniques to help clients move toward greater well-being.