Kirsten King, LCPC

Kirsten King, LCPC, offers calm, straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and health-related life changes. She aims to make therapy feel practical and approachable. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental so people can talk honestly about what’s hard right now.

King brings 23 years of clinical experience and a long history of working with family conflict and domestic violence survivors. She has also spent time in rural practice settings and has personal experience with military life as a child, spouse, service member, and parent of veterans. That background informs how she listens to concerns tied to relationships, transitions, and caregiving roles.

In sessions, she focuses on what people want to change and how to get there. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to notice patterns of thought and behavior. She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps when life feels overwhelming.

Attachment-based and client-centered methods shape how she builds a trusting working relationship. Those approaches mean she pays attention to how relationships affect feelings and works at the pace each person needs. Dialectical skills are used when intense emotions or impulsive reactions make daily life harder.

People often come for help with parenting stress, sleep problems, trauma or abuse, chronic illness or pain, ADHD, and identity questions. She works with typical life challenges such as career strain, relationship conflict, and coping with change. Her Montana practice combines long experience with an emphasis on practical, doable steps.

Approaches you can expect and how they work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on living in line with their values. It can be useful for persistent anxiety, chronic health changes, and dilemmas about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and managing mood shifts. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions, which can be helpful for family conflict, relationship strain, and trauma recovery.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try different tools to see what fits. That collaborative process helps shape sessions around what actually helps the individual client in day-to-day life.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking to learn which online formats are offered. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow a shorter check-in during a work break, and remove travel time for rural clients. They can also let people focus on skill practice in real-life settings and bring in notes or activities for use between meetings.