About Krista
Krista Asp is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people find balance in their lives and relationships. She combines practical talk with awareness of the body to address stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship strains. Krista works in Tennessee and brings six years of clinical experience to sessions.
Her approach blends somatic ideas with client-centered and attachment-based work. That means Krista pays attention to how emotions show up in the body while keeping the conversation focused on each person's goals.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive-behavioral tools when clients need concrete steps to manage thoughts and behaviors. She helps people facing parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, trauma and abuse, and identity concerns like LGBT issues. Krista also supports people coping with life changes such as divorce, cancer, or transitions tied to aging.
Sessions often include practical strategies for coping alongside time to process feelings. Krista completed a postgraduate degree at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, from a CACREP accredited program, and has continued professional development in mindfulness-based stress reduction and EMDR. Her training background contributes to a flexible style that adapts to different concerns.
People meet Krista for short-term coaching or longer work on deeper patterns. She aims to create a steady, respectful space where clients can notice what matters, try new ways of responding, and rebuild connection with themselves and others.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how emotions appear in the body and uses gentle awareness of breathing, posture, and bodily sensations to help people notice and shift stress patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, trauma symptoms, chronic pain, and tension held in the body.Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections. In online sessions this approach helps people identify recurring interaction cycles and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.
Client-centered therapy places the person's experience at the center of the work. The therapist offers empathic, nonjudgmental listening and follows the client's priorities so goals emerge from the client's own values and concerns.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try different tools, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Together the client and therapist track progress and shift focus as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people keep continuity during life transitions or busy weeks. Many people find it easier to access care from home and to practice new skills between sessions using messaging and brief check-ins.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Tennessee
- Languages
- English