Kristl Bray, LCSW
Licensed in Utah · 30 years in practice
Kristl Bray is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Utah
- 293034-3501 · expires September 2026
- LCSW, Montana
- BBH-LCSW-LIC-72689 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1649691544 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
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About Kristl
Kristl Bray is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. She focuses on practical, approachable therapy that helps people handle stress, anxiety, and big life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward.
She aims to make each session feel manageable for someone juggling family, work, or identity questions. Kristl uses methods that help people notice what matters and take small steps toward it. Sessions involve clear tools for feeling less overwhelmed and improving communication.
Background and approach
She pays attention to relationships and identity without making clients feel judged. Her background includes long experience supporting people with mood concerns like depression and bipolar, as well as attention differences, addiction, and grief. She also addresses concerns such as sleep problems, low self-esteem, and career stress.
That range helps when several issues overlap and make life harder. Kristl works with people exploring sexual identity and those navigating intimacy, kink, or nontraditional relationship questions. She also assists parents who are struggling with the strain of caregiving and people coping with loss or separation.
Her perspective is practical and person-focused rather than technical. Sessions can be over video, phone, chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Kristl practices in Montana and offers services to people both inside the U.S. and internationally.
She holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and brings decades of hands-on clinical experience.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kristl lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kristl names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes where deciding what matters feels hard. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and communication; it can help with intimacy, trust, and recurring relationship patterns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and pace, using empathic listening and reflection to build insight and self-trust.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristl will work together with each person to choose or blend methods based on goals, comfort, and what feels useful in early sessions. She adjusts tools over time when something isn’t helping or when priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so therapy can fit different schedules. Video is close to an in-person session and supports deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in, and chat or messaging works well for quick updates or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep appointments around work, caregiving, travel, or time zone differences, and to pick the format that feels most practical for ongoing progress.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addictions, grief, and relationship or intimacy issues.
What style of therapy does she use?
Her work draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-based ideas, client-centered methods, CBT, and DBT to offer practical tools and emotional support.
How much clinical experience does she bring?
She has 30 years of experience working in clinical settings and community care, bringing long-term experience to complex and overlapping challenges.
Where is Kristl based and what are her credentials?
She practices in Montana and holds the credential LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, with licensure noted in MT and UT.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and Kristl is open to working with international clients.
Which session formats are offered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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