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Kristina Mathews Acosta
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LCAS, LCMHC, LCMHCS (she, her)
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Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $175
- Pay by American Express, Cash, Check, Discover, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Visa
Insurance
- Aetna
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Carelon Behavioral Health
- Carolina Behavioral Health Alliance
- Cigna and Evernorth
- Elevance
- Magellan
- MedCost
- Optum
- Sentara Health Plans
- TELUS Health
- United Medical Resources (UMR)
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- Out of Network
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Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of North Carolina / 7687 Kristina Mathews Acosta
- Attended University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Graduated 2008
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Addiction
- Depression
- Anxiety
Expertise
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Behavioral Issues
- Bisexual
- Body Positivity
- Career Counseling
- Chronic Relapse
- Coping Skills
- Divorce
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Infertility
- Internet Addiction
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Mood Disorders
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Substance Use
- Thinking Disorders
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Veterans
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
4 Endorsements
Client Focus
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Communities
Ethnicity
Age
Participants
Communities
Ethnicity
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Clinical Supervision and Licensed Supervisors
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- EMDR
- Energy Psychology
- Experiential Therapy
- Expressive Arts
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gestalt
- Humanistic
- Intervention
- Person-Centered
- Positive Psychology
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Trauma Focused
Groups
Child Parent Relationship Training - ADHD Focus
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10 WEEK PARENTING GROUP Objectives: *Help your child increase their ability to be responsible for their own behaviors *Provide strategies to help respond to temper tantrums *Improve your child's school performance *Deepen your connection and communication with your child *Introduction of techniques that lead to increased independence *Increase/recreate your feelings of compassion and levels of enjoyment with your child again
Expertise
Types of Therapy
Age
Session Cost
Group Meets
Location
McCloud Acosta Clinical Services, PLLC
1126 Sam Newell Road
Suite D
Matthews, NC 28105
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Parent & Teen
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The purpose of the 24 week Dialectical Behavior Therapy group is to help parents and their teenage children learn how to regulate their emotions, communicate more effectively with one another, cope with distressing emotions, and cultivate mindfulness. Clients will learn the skills in a group setting and practice them throughout the week. The parents and teens meet at the same time.
Expertise
Types of Therapy
Age
Session Cost
Group Meets
Location
McCloud Acosta Clinical Services, PLLC
1126 Sam Newell Road
Suite D
Matthews, NC 28105
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Adult
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This group will meet on Mondays at 5pm. There is limited space and clients are required to be in ongoing therapy. If you do not have a therapist, we can refer you to one. The group is 24 weeks long and new members are allowed to join at the beginning of a new module.
Types of Therapy
Age
Session Cost
Group Meets
Location
McCloud Acosta Clinical Services, PLLC
1126 Sam Newell Road
Suite D
Matthews, NC 28105
Location
Primary Location
McCloud Acosta Clinical Services
519 W John St
Suite D
Matthews, NC 28105
(704) 286-6227Email me
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