Kristin Fox-Klingensmith, LPC

Kristin Fox-Klingensmith is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) based in Michigan with 22 years of experience in the mental health field. Her career includes roles in a community mental health agency, a psychiatric hospital, outpatient clinics, and providing therapy within county jails, giving her a breadth of experience with varied clinical presentations and intensities.

She has worked extensively with depression, anxiety, grief and loss, life transitions, relationship concerns, and addictions. Additional areas of focus include stress, trauma and abuse, family and parenting challenges, eating issues, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, coping with life changes, support for drug and alcohol addiction, and exploration of life purpose.

Kristin offers a warm, interactive, and encouraging counseling style, approaching each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels. Her methods draw from multiple therapeutic traditions - combining cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, person-centered, and psychodynamic approaches - and she also uses evidence-based techniques such as CBT, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. Treatment is developed collaboratively so that client and therapist can set clear goals and work together toward meaningful change.

Having participated in treatment herself, Kristin understands the practical and emotional challenges of reaching out for help and recognizes how stigma and system barriers can feel overwhelming. She values the therapeutic relationship as central to progress, affirms the courage involved in seeking support, and looks forward to working with new clients who are ready to take steps toward a better quality of life.