About Kristen Quinones
Therapy with Kristen Quinones
You may be highly self-aware, sensitive, and used to thinking deeply about everything yet still feel anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself. I offer a space where you can slow down, make sense of your inner world, and begin to trust yourself in a more grounded way.
My work focuses on helping you change your relationship with anxiety so it shifts from feeling debilitating to actually useful internal guidance. I integrate evidence-based approaches like CBT, DBT, and ERP with a more relational, reflective approach, so you’re not only learning skills, but also feeling more steady, clear, and connected to yourself.
I became a therapist because I am deeply drawn to helping people feel more supported in their emotional lives and more connected to a strong sense of self. I am passionate about working with people who are in anxiety recovery and are looking not only for symptom relief, but also for a deeper sense of self-trust, meaning, and authenticity.
To me, anxiety is often the mind and body’s way of signaling that something feels out of alignment or unsafe. In our work together, we explore what your anxiety may be communicating-whether that involves overwhelming thoughts, emotionally stressful relationships or situations, unresolved past experiences, or a need for deeper internal clarity and grounding.
Therapy with me is about helping you reconnect with yourself and building confidence in how you cope. This may include learning skills for regulating emotions and managing distress (i.e. panic attacks), working with intrusive thoughts and compulsive patterns, and calming the body’s stress response. I draw from a range of approaches to support a holistic experience of healing that includes the mind, body, and spirit.
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, emotionally attuned, and deeply reflective, but often feel disconnected from themselves or unsure how to fully trust their own inner experience. Anxiety can sometimes be a signal that it’s time to return to that connection. My role is to help you do that in a grounded and supportive way.
If my approach resonates with you, I would be glad to connect and see if working together feels like a good fit. Schedule a free phone consultation today. My current availability for virtual sessions is weekday lunchtime hours.
More About Kristen
As someone who was born and raised in NYC, opening up a private practice to serve my community was always a dream. It has been an honor to be of service here. I am happy to share some of my favorite things! All things Halloween, pumpkin, and fall are first and foremost on my favorites list-and that even includes a pumpkin iced coffee on the beach during the summer. My favorite TV shows are Dexter, Revenge, and Scandal. My favorite movies are Wicked (Parts 1 and 2), 50 First Dates, and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Stand-Up comedy and podcasts like Bad Friends are also something I enjoy. I listen to a wide variety of music, but alternative rock, indie folk pop, and showtunes are probably my top 3. I also have my own regular spiritual practice which includes intuitive work, meditation, tarot readings, and taking classes about Spirit.
Some therapeutic modalities I utilize are:
Psychodynamic Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Exposure & Response Prevention Therapy (ERP)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Somatic Therapy Techniques
Resource Tapping
My specialties are:
Panic disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Spirituality
DBT (Emotional Regulation & Distress Tolerance skills training)
Education
BA Psychology - Binghamton University
Master of Social Work - Fordham University
What can spiritually grounded psychotherapy for anxiety recovery look like?
Spiritually grounded psychotherapy for anxiety recovery integrates evidence-based anxiety treatment with a deeper focus on the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and inner alignment. This approach is not about eliminating anxiety, but about understanding it, regulating it, and transforming your relationship with it so you can feel more grounded, safe, and connected to yourself.
This work is especially supportive for individuals who are sensitive, intuitive, or highly self-aware and often struggle with overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or feeling disconnected from themselves.
Establishing safety and grounding in the nervous system
Anxiety recovery begins with helping your nervous system feel safe again. When your body is in a chronic state of stress, anxiety can feel constant and overwhelming.
In therapy, we focus on grounding and regulation using evidence-based tools such as DBT skills, somatic techniques, breathwork, and mindfulness practices. You learn how to experience emotions without becoming flooded or shutting down, allowing you to build a more trusting relationship with your body.
Rebuilding self-trust and inner clarity
As your nervous system stabilizes, therapy shifts toward rebuilding self-trust. Anxiety often disrupts your ability to feel confident in your thoughts, emotions, and intuition.
Together, we explore how anxiety has shaped your inner dialogue and begin strengthening a more grounded, compassionate internal voice. Over time, many clients begin to feel more clarity in distinguishing anxiety from deeper inner knowing or intuition.
Emotional healing and trauma-informed support
Anxiety is often connected to past experiences that taught your nervous system to stay on high alert. In a trauma-informed way, we gently explore these patterns while staying within your window of emotional safety.
As emotional resilience builds, patterns such as perfectionism, self-criticism, and fear-based coping begin to soften. This creates space for more self-acceptance, emotional freedom, and connection to your authentic self.
Boundaries, relationships, and self-empowerment
Anxiety often becomes stronger when boundaries are unclear or when you feel responsible for others’ emotions. In therapy, we work on boundaries, communication, and self-advocacy so you can feel more grounded in relationships.
This process supports you in protecting your energy, navigating conflict with more clarity, and honoring sensitivity as a strength rather than something to override.
Living in alignment with yourself
As therapy progresses, you begin making decisions less from fear and more from inner alignment. You learn to notice what feels grounding and supportive versus what feels depleting or disconnected.
Over time, this builds a stronger sense of intuition, self-trust, and clarity in how you move through your life.
Spiritual exploration and integration (if it resonates for you)
For those who are interested, therapy can include a grounded exploration of spirituality as a supportive resource. This is always integrated in a way that supports emotional healing and stability, not as a replacement for clinical work.
Spirituality may take many forms-connection to self, nature, values, meaning, or a sense of something larger than yourself-and is always guided by what feels authentic and helpful for you.
What clients often experience
Over time, clients often notice:
Greater nervous system calm and emotional stability
Increased self-trust and inner clarity
Less reactivity and overthinking
Healthier boundaries and relationships
More aligned decision-making
A deeper sense of connection to themselves
Spiritually grounded psychotherapy for anxiety recovery is ultimately about helping you feel more at home within yourself-grounded, clear, and able to move through life with greater ease and self-trust.