MEET KRISTIN OPRIS, LCPC
Neurodivergent Therapist in Post Falls, ID
Some people move through life feeling like they're speaking a language no one else quite understands. If anxiety, depression, or a beautifully neurodivergent mind has left you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or out of step with the world, I'd love to help you make sense of it, and maybe even find your way back to yourself!
My path toward becoming a therapist…
… began when I was sixteen years old. During a difficult season in my own life, I experienced firsthand the hope, support, and healing that can emerge through the therapeutic relationship. That experience changed the course of my life. As a teenager, I was able to see a path forward, and I knew I wanted to spend my life helping others find that same sense of hope and possibility.
I earned my Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Whitworth University in 2008 and my Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College in 2010. Over the past sixteen years, I have had the privilege of working with individuals and families from a wide variety of backgrounds and life experiences.
Early in my career, I worked extensively in and around Detroit, providing inner-city mental health services and substance abuse treatment. Those experiences taught me the importance of meeting people with compassion, humility, and respect, regardless of where they come from or what challenges they face. Later, I worked in community mental health in downtown Spokane before transitioning into private practice in North Spokane, where I spent several years supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families through life's many transitions and difficulties.
Most recently, I worked as an equine therapist serving community youth, an experience that deepened my appreciation for experiential and relationship-based approaches to healing. Over the past several years, I have also explored energy work and other holistic approaches as a way of further understanding the connection between mind, body, emotion, and spirit. While my clinical foundation remains grounded in evidence-based practice, I believe healing often involves more than symptom reduction alone.
Faith and spirituality are deeply important parts of my own life. At the same time, I recognize that every person's beliefs, values, and worldview are unique. Whether you identify with a particular faith tradition, consider yourself spiritual but not religious, or hold no spiritual beliefs at all, my goal is to meet you where you are and treat your beliefs with respect and care.
“I have a particular passion for working with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, neurodivergence, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.”
You’re not broken…
… though I fully understand why you might feel that way sometimes. Being human can be weird, tender, exhausting, beautiful, confusing, and frustrating. My therapeutic style is warm, grounded, curious, and gently humorous, because I believe healing does not always have to feel heavy to be meaningful.
Sometimes we need practical tools, sometimes we need deep emotional work, and sometimes we need someone to kindly say, “That makes sense,” while helping us sort through the tangled pile of thoughts, feelings, survival strategies, and outdated internal alarm systems we’ve been carrying around.
I enjoy working with people who are thoughtful, sensitive, neurodivergent, overwhelmed, grieving, anxious, depressed, spiritually curious, beautifully unconventional, or just plain tired of pretending they’re fine. Therapy with me is a space to be honest, be human, laugh when appropriate, cry when needed, and slowly learn how to live with more clarity, compassion, and self-trust.
My Approach
My therapeutic approach integrates practical, evidence-based tools with deeper curiosity about the human experience. I draw from modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and existential therapy to support clients in both immediate coping and long-term growth. CBT and DBT can help us identify patterns, build emotional regulation skills, strengthen communication, and create practical strategies for daily life. At the same time, a psychodynamic lens allows us to explore how past experiences, relationships, attachment patterns, and unconscious beliefs may still be shaping the present. My existential approach makes room for the bigger questions, too: meaning, identity, grief, purpose, freedom, faith, uncertainty, and what it means to live a life that feels genuinely your own. In other words, we can absolutely work on coping skills, but we may also gently investigate why your nervous system has been running around with a tiny clipboard yelling, “Something is wrong!” for the past decade.
Therapy with me is
Grounded
My style is grounded, steady, and deeply human.
Insightful
I bring an insightful, compassionate perspective to therapy, helping clients notice patterns, make sense of their experiences, and gently uncover what may be asking for care beneath the surface.
Gently Humorous
Warm humor, lightly applied.
Our Services
Therapy for Anxiety
Therapy can help you untangle anxiety, quiet the mental noise, and build boundaries that don’t require a guilty conscience. Together, we can explore the patterns that keep your nervous system on high alert, whether that looks like overthinking, people-pleasing, panic, perfectionism, or constantly preparing for the worst-case scenario. Anxiety often has a story to tell, and therapy offers a place to understand it with curiosity instead of shame. Relief is possible, and you don’t have to figure it out by yourself.
Therapy for Depression
If getting through the day feels harder than it should, therapy can help. Depression can show up as sadness, exhaustion, numbness, irritability, disconnection, or the quiet sense that life has lost some of its color. Together, we’ll explore what may be contributing to the heaviness, whether it’s grief, stress, old wounds, life transitions, burnout, or patterns that have become too heavy to carry alone. Therapy offers space to reconnect with your strengths, understand your needs, and work toward a life that feels more meaningful, manageable, and fully your own.
Neurodivergent Affirming Therapy
As a neurodivergent therapist, I genuinely enjoy working with neurodivergent clients. I understand firsthand that different ways of thinking, feeling, sensing, communicating, and moving through the world are not problems to be fixed, they are experiences to be understood, supported, and integrated. Therapy can offer a space to make sense of your nervous system, identify what helps you feel more regulated and connected, and build practical strategies that honor who you are rather than forcing you into a mold that never quite fit in the first place.
Outside of the Therapy Room
Outside of the therapy room, I enjoy creative writing, quiet walks, beautiful hikes, and spending time in nature whenever I can. I love a good bonfire, a night out on the lake, complex existential conversations, good food, playing around with AI, and comics that manage to be both ridiculous and oddly profound. These are some of the things that keep me grounded, curious, and connected to the messy, meaningful, very human experience of being alive.
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