Krystal Bates, LCSW

Krystal Bates brings over 11 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW, a credential that signifies advanced training and clinical licensure in social work. She leads a private practice called Therapy with Krystal and centers her work on millennial women navigating difficult life transitions and those beginning the process of healing from complex trauma. While she prioritizes women of color (WOC), she remains open to working with allied races and genders and seeks to meet each person where they are.

Her approach blends several evidence-informed modalities, including client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness therapy, narrative therapy, somatic therapy, and trauma-focused therapy. This blend supports practical coping skills, deeper self-understanding, and body-aware healing for concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, multicultural concerns, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and women’s issues.

Krystal frames therapy as a collaborative process in which the client is the expert on their own life and she walks alongside, offering insight, support, and encouragement. She aims to cultivate a holistically oriented space where curiosity, compassion, and positive regard guide the work, and where people can gradually feel safe expressing their authentic selves across life domains. Her ultimate goal is to help individuals foster greater balance, peace, and fulfillment according to their own definitions.

More information about her practice and how she works is available at https://www.therapywithkrystal.com.