Chrys Kinchen, LMFT

Chrys Kinchen, LMFT

LCSW

Approaches to Therapy

Whatever you are experiencing, whether you are too uncertain, too filled with sadness, too anxious, too available, too stuck in your past…Chrys wants to work together with you to shift that dynamic. It isn’t always easy to sit in front of someone and share personal things. Chrys likes to be present, to listen, respect where her clients are and also push gently when necessary.

After years of practice, she still enjoys being a safe space for exploration and knows this is fostered by the therapeutic relationship.

Chrys works with her clients to look at things from a variety of angles, build insight and improve coping.  She believes this can help to foster a more balanced approach that can make life not only easier, but enjoyable.

Specialties

  • Abandonment & Attachment Issues
  • Adjustments to Change/Life Transitions
  • Alopecia
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence
  • Grief & Loss
  • Trauma
  • Relationships

Theoretical Orientation

Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive

Favorite Quote

“A healer does not heal you. A healer is someone who holds space for you while you awaken your inner healer, so that you may heal yourself”
– Maryam Hasnaa

Hobbies

Music (singing, curating for events)  l  Writing l  Traveling  l  Walking the Rezzie  l  Losing & Finding Myself In Good Art  l  Discovering Coffees & Baking Cheesecakes

Brief Bio

Chrys has been committed to counseling people in a wide variety of circumstances for nearly 20 years and has enjoyed working with a diverse population of children, teens, adults, and couples with a range of life circumstances. Chrys has remained passionate about and genuinely interested in our psychology and its interaction with our environment, and has continued to act as a student as much as a practitioner. Aside from graduate school and clinic work, she has extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Gestalt Couples Therapy, Intimate Partner Violence, Seeking Safety and Interpersonal Therapy.  As well, chrys uses mindfulness techniques, narrative and solution focused therapy in the movement towards healing. 
 
Prior to and while initially establishing her private practice,  she worked in community mental health with a focus on the SPMI (severe persistent mentally ill) population.  This work, as well as time with the Psychiatric Mobile Response Team, enhanced her belief that being flexible is key and that all of this knowledge is meaningless, without a strong therapeutic relationship.  
 
Her studies at Spelman College earned her a BA in psychology, and her graduate work at UCLA focused on social welfare for individuals and families.  It is the fusion of these two, the functions of the human brain and it’s processing, as well as the person in their environment, that has continued to inform her work.

LCSW

Approaches to Therapy

Whatever you are experiencing, whether you are too uncertain, too filled with sadness, too anxious, too available, too stuck in your past…Chrys wants to work together with you to shift that dynamic. It isn’t always easy to sit in front of someone and share personal things. Chrys likes to be present, to listen, respect where her clients are and also push gently when necessary.

After years of practice, she still enjoys being a safe space for exploration and knows this is fostered by the therapeutic relationship.

Chrys works with her clients to look at things from a variety of angles, build insight and improve coping.  She believes this can help to foster a more balanced approach that can make life not only easier, but enjoyable.

Specialties

  • Abandonment & Attachment Issues
  • Adjustments to Change/Life Transitions
  • Alopecia
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence
  • Grief & Loss
  • Trauma
  • Relationships

Theoretical Orientation

Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive

Favorite Quote

“A healer does not heal you. A healer is someone who holds space for you while you awaken your inner healer, so that you may heal yourself”
– Maryam Hasnaa

Hobbies

Music (singing, curating for events)  l  Writing l  Traveling  l  Walking the Rezzie  l  Losing & Finding Myself In Good Art  l  Discovering Coffees & Baking Cheesecakes

Brief Bio

Chrys has been committed to counseling people in a wide variety of circumstances for nearly 20 years and has enjoyed working with a diverse population of children, teens, adults, and couples with a range of life circumstances. Chrys has remained passionate about and genuinely interested in our psychology and its interaction with our environment, and has continued to act as a student as much as a practitioner. Aside from graduate school and clinic work, she has extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Gestalt Couples Therapy, Intimate Partner Violence, Seeking Safety and Interpersonal Therapy.  As well, chrys uses mindfulness techniques, narrative and solution focused therapy in the movement towards healing. 
 
Prior to and while initially establishing her private practice,  she worked in community mental health with a focus on the SPMI (severe persistent mentally ill) population.  This work, as well as time with the Psychiatric Mobile Response Team, enhanced her belief that being flexible is key and that all of this knowledge is meaningless, without a strong therapeutic relationship.  
 
Her studies at Spelman College earned her a BA in psychology, and her graduate work at UCLA focused on social welfare for individuals and families.  It is the fusion of these two, the functions of the human brain and it’s processing, as well as the person in their environment, that has continued to inform her work.