About Me
Hello! I’m Kristine Seitz. I came to this work the way most therapists do: by being curious about people long before I had language for why.
I hold a master's in social work and a master's in human sexuality education. I trained formally in sex therapy and in systemic, parts-based, and narrative approaches, the kind of training that gives you frameworks, not scripts. I use what's useful and leave the rest. People aren't theories, and I don't treat them like one.
I'm direct. I'll tell you what I'm noticing, and I'll tell you when something isn't working, including in the room with me. Clients tend to describe the experience as honest before they describe it as comfortable. That's the right order.
My doctoral research explored the impact of ghosting in dating relationships formed online, with particular attention to ambiguity, rejection, and the search for closure after unexplained disconnection. That work continues to shape how I think about modern intimacy as a process of risk, meaning-making, repair, and accountability, rather than a set of communication skills to perfect. Across my clinical, educational, and consulting work, I remain interested in how people build connection in a world that often makes avoidance easier than honesty.
When I'm not working, I'm usually still thinking about the same things: what makes people close, what pulls them apart, and why the answer is rarely as simple as either side wants it to be.
Center for Connection & Relationships
Outside the therapy room, I founded the Center for Connection and Relationships, where I write, teach, and build tools for people working on their relationships outside a clinical setting. I'll share more about that distinction on the therapy page, since people ask.
Click. Connect. Love. began as a phrase on this website while I was researching online dating and ghosting. I used it to describe the hope I saw in online dating: the possibility that someone could click on a profile, connect with a real person, and build something meaningful from there. It was an optimistic phrase then, and I am a little less naive now, though I still believe in the idea underneath it. The words sound simple because the longing is simple: to find, build, and sustain connection. Like much of this work, it might seem simple. It doesn't mean it's easy. Connection requires honesty, vulnerability, repair, and care.
That phrase grew beyond this website and became the foundation for the Center for Connection and Relationships. It's still the foundation of both parts of my work, in the therapy room and outside it.
