Kristen Gaughan, LPC

Kristen Gaughan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with over 23 years in behavioral health. She chose this path early in life and has spent decades helping people face hard moments. Her work covers both mental health and addiction concerns. She has experience across many treatment settings and with a broad range of concerns. That includes stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, and addictions such as drug and alcohol problems or process addictions. She also helps people dealing with grief, caregiving strain, cancer-related stress, and challenges like codependency or attachment wounds. Kristen uses several approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on Client-Centered methods that prioritize the person's goals and rhythm. She also uses Emotionally-Focused and Solution-Focused ideas to help people notice important feelings and try practical steps that can change day-to-day life. Her training includes a Bachelor’s degree from York College of Pennsylvania and a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. Kristen frames counseling as a vocation and aims to help people find more peace, joy, and contentment. People who choose her can expect calm, straightforward care aimed at realistic change. She encourages a collaborative process where the person's goals guide the work. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking.

How Kristen’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and pace, offering time to reflect and decide what matters most. Online sessions using this approach can help people name priorities and plan small steps they can try between meetings.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and sit with important emotions so they can change patterns in relationships or with themselves. In remote sessions this often means guided conversations that point to feeling patterns and new ways to connect or respond.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristen will listen to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences and suggest an approach or mix of approaches that seems best. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.

Session formats were not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, save travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people choose interactions that match their day-to-day life. Licensed professionals can adapt the chosen approaches so the work remains practical and focused even when not meeting in person.