Kristina Laswell
LPC
Therapist
About Kristina Laswell
Kristina is a Licensed Professional Counselor that holds a Master’s degree in Counseling and School Counseling. She believes that meeting the client where they are at, using their strengths along with compassion, empathy, and directness helps clients make progress on the goals they have set out when seeking counseling. Kristina mainly uses CBT, DBT, solution focused approaches while using humor, acceptance, and playfulness to build a therapeutic rapport with clients.
Prior to joining Ellie Kristina has 8 years experience in providing counseling services to adults, adolescents, families, and couples in a myriad of settings from residential, Intensive Outpatient, and EAP services. While working in those settings, she has worked with substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, borderline personality, suicidal ideation, self-harming, trauma-related issues, bi-polar disorder, autism, couple’s therapy, and family related issues.
Outside of work, Kristina enjoys spending time with her family, friends and dogs, playing pickleball, disc golf, reading books, and napping.
Kristina can be found at the following location:
Specialties:
Insurance Accepted:
- AARP Medicare Advantage
- Aetna
- Aetna: Medicaid
- Aetna: Medicare
- Aetna: PPO/POS
- All Savers
- Ambetter
- Ambetter: Medicaid
- Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Anthem/Blue Cross Blue Shield: Medicaid
- BCBS/Blue Cross Blue Shield
- BCBS/Blue Cross Blue Shield: Medicaid
- Behavioral Health Systems/Telus Health
- Carelon
- Cigna/Evernorth
- Cigna/Evernorth: Medicare
- GEHA/Government Employees Health Association
- Healthy Blue: Medicaid
- Home State Health: Medicaid
- Home State Health: Show Me Healthy Kids Medicaid
- Humana
- Humana: Medicare
- Medica
- Medica: Medicare
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Mercy Managed Behavioral Health
- Mercy Managed Behavioral Health: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mercy Managed Behavioral Health: Medicare
- MO HealthNet: Medicaid
- PHCS/MultiPlan/Claritev
- PHCS/MultiPlan/Claritev: Medicare
- Optum
- Optum: Medicaid
- Optum: Medicare
- Oscar
- Partners Direct Health
- Self Pay
- UHC Community Plan: Medicaid
- UHC/UnitedHealthcare
- UHC/UnitedHealthcare: Medicaid
- UHC/UnitedHealthcare: Medicare
- UMR
- United Behavioral Health
- VA Community Care Network/Optum
- Wellcare: Medicare
- WellFirst
- WellFirst: Medicare
- Wellfirst SSM Medica
- Essence Healthcare: Medicare Advantage
- IBEW Local 309
- LHN/Labor Health Network
- Humana: PPO
- Humana: HMO
Therapy Types:
- Family Therapy
- Individual Therapy
- Couples/Marriage Therapy
Therapeutic Approaches:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Art Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Exposure Therapy
- Holistic Medicine
- Interpersonal Process Therapy (IPT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Music Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
- Somatic Experiencing
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Transpersonal Therapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Discernment Counseling
- Horticultural Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Nutritional Therapy
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Prepare and Enrich Counseling
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Relational Life Therapy
- Solution-Focused/Brief Therapy
- Spiritual or Holistic Approach