Dr. Kristen Rumley, LCSW

Licensed in Pennsylvania · 21 years in practice

Dr. Kristen Rumley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 21 years of experience.

License and registration

LCSW, Pennsylvania: CW016569 · expires February 2027
LCSW, Texas: 113650 · expires January 2028
LCSW, Connecticut: 14560 · expires January 2027
NPI: 1225218266 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 21
Languages: English

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About Kristen

Dr. Kristen Rumley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 21 years of experience. She combines practical skills with a straightforward, compassionate style.

She draws on military and crisis work to help people navigate hard moments. She prefers video sessions but also offers phone, live chat, and text options through her online practice. Her background includes eight years of active duty service in the U.S.

Air Force and extensive work with disaster response and first responder issues.

Background and approach

That history shaped her comfort with high-stress situations and with problems that come after trauma, loss, or major life change. She brings a calm, steady approach when people feel overwhelmed. In sessions she focuses on relationships, boundaries, and attachment patterns.

She uses client-centered and narrative methods to help people tell their story and find new ways forward. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are used for building coping skills and sustaining change. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, and parenting strain.

Additional focuses include abandonment, codependency, communication problems, infidelity, and blended family issues. Her experience includes career and compassion fatigue concerns as well. Dr.

Rumley aims to make therapy a collaborative process. She looks to build a trusting relationship and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented with attention to feelings and real-life results.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Kristen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Grief
Self esteem
Depression
Coping with life changes
Addictions
LGBT
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Intimacy-related issues
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Career difficulties
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Abandonment
Attachment issues
Blended family issues
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Divorce and separation
Emptiness
Family problems
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Money and financial issues
Narcissism
Post-traumatic stress
Self-love
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Kristen names

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Online support

How her approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice different responses in everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person as the expert on their own life, with the therapist offering empathy and reflection rather than direction. This helps people feel heard and begin to sort priorities and values.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to see what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they may try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client use face-to-face interaction for depth and nonverbal feedback. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, or a way to connect without scheduling a full call. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of problems does she help with?

She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, and self-esteem struggles. Relationship, family, intimacy, and career concerns are also common topics.

What is her therapy style like?

Sessions are collaborative and straightforward. She mixes client-centered listening with narrative and mindfulness tools to help people make practical changes.

How much experience does she have?

She has 21 years of clinical experience and brings additional experience from military service and disaster response work.

Where is she licensed and based?

She holds LCSW credentials in Texas and Pennsylvania and practices out of Texas.

What languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.

How does pricing work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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