About Me
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Hello! I’m Kristie Tyson
Licensed Therapist
Kristie Tyson has been working over 20 years to build an effective relationship with children, adults and families to enure needs are meet and improvements are made in patient lives. Kristie’s mission is to provide quality health care services that inspire and uplift others to achieve their best life.
Kristie graduate from Truman State University with a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice. She began working with Youth in the Division of Youth Services where she worked with at-risk youth. While there she had the desire to help others in a more preventative manner. She then began seeking a degree in Counseling at Lindenwood University.
While studying at Lindenwood University, Kristie began to enhance her skills by working as a substance abuse counselor at Salvation Army with adults. While there she was able to help many men and women begin to recognize the need to deal with their issues head on and they were able to recognize their strengths and abilities.
More About Kristie
Kristie has worked in several other social services agencies that include working with families, teens and children. She has worked at Better Family Life as a Career Developer, MBCH as a Therapeutic Foster Case Manager- which lead her to work creatively with children and teens to help maintain placement. She also trained foster parents to help deal with challenging behaviors.
Kristie has been Counseling for 11 years. As a Licensed Professional Counselor she worked at Epworth School where she was a Therapist working with kids of diverse backgrounds that may have issues with anxiety, self-esteem, mood disorder and more. She then went to great circles where she was a Mentor Coordinator and a Program Director in the Residential program.
In 2017 Kristie Tyson went to become an independent contractor through River Birch Counseling and now has created her own Counseling Services- Uplift and Inspire Counseling Services. She is now located in Lake St Louis and in the Olivette area.
My Experience
- Therapist: Epworth Children & Family Services
- Therapeutic Mentoring Coordinator: Great Circle
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Therapist: Riverbirch Counseling
My Education
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Master in Counseling
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Certified in CBT
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Trained in Trauma Therapy
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Hellen Keller
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