About Kristine
Kristine Seitz, LSW, MSW, M.Ed
I am a relationship and sex therapist in Moorestown, New Jersey, working with individuals and couples navigating intimacy, conflict, sexuality, identity, dating, grief, and change.
My approach is direct, relational, and attentive to the personal, cultural, and systemic forces that shape people’s lives.
I have spent more than 15 years working across therapy, education, clinical leadership, professional development, and organizational change. Across those roles, I have remained interested in the patterns that shape connection, intimacy, conflict, identity, and change.
People rarely arrive in therapy with a problem that exists in only one place. A struggle may live within a person, between partners, inside a family pattern, or within a larger system that has placed unreasonable demands on them. Often, several of those things are true at once.
That perspective shapes how I listen. I pay attention to what is happening, where it may have come from, what keeps it going, and what may need to change.
I pay attention to what happens between people.
I hold a master’s degree in social work and a master’s degree in human sexuality education. My training includes sex therapy, systemic therapy, narrative therapy, and parts-based approaches.
These frameworks help me recognize patterns and ask better questions. I use them with judgment and flexibility because no single theory can fully explain a person, a relationship, or a life.
People are not theories, and I do not treat them like one.
Training & Perspective
Master of Social Work
Master of Education in Human Sexuality
Formal training in sex therapy
Training in systemic, narrative, and parts-based approaches
More than 15 years of experience across therapy, education, and leadership
Education & Experience
How I Understand What Shapes Connection
Relationships, families, culture, health, gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, community, and larger systems all influence how people understand themselves and one another.
These contexts affect what feels possible, what feels dangerous, what gets named, and what people learn to keep quiet. They also shape whose needs are taken seriously, whose behavior is excused, and whose experience is questioned.
I consider those influences throughout therapy because they are often part of the problem, part of the protection, or both.
People exist in context.
Sexuality has been central to my professional work for many years. I am interested in the places where sexuality intersects with identity, pleasure, shame, health, power, grief, vulnerability, and belonging.
I do not assume that everyone wants sex, defines intimacy in the same way, practices monogamy, relates to gender in the same way, or enters therapy with the same goals.
My work begins with understanding the person, relationship, and circumstances in front of me. Consent, autonomy, mutual respect, and accurate information remain central.
Sexuality, intimacy, and belonging
My doctoral research examined the effects of ghosting in dating relationships formed online, with particular attention to ambiguity, rejection, and the search for closure after unexplained disconnection.
That research continues to shape how I think about dating, loss, trust, attachment, and modern intimacy. Digital communication has created more ways to connect while also making avoidance, disappearance, and uncertainty easier to sustain.
I remain interested in how people make meaning after a relationship changes or ends without explanation, and how they begin trusting their own perceptions again.
Modern intimacy and disconnection
How I work in the therapy room
I am direct, engaged, and willing to name what I notice.
I will ask questions that move beyond the first explanation, identify patterns that may be difficult to see from inside them, and tell you when I think we are avoiding something important. I will also tell you when I believe an approach is no longer helping.
I expect honesty to move in both directions. You should be able to tell me when I have misunderstood you, when something does not fit, or when our work is missing the point.
Clients often describe the experience as honest before they describe it as comfortable. Therapy may involve discomfort, but it should never come at the expense of safety, trust, or your ability to speak openly about what is happening in the room.
More than the reason you came to therapy
I believe people are more than their symptoms, their hardest relationships, or the reason they first entered therapy.
Therapy can make room for the parts of your life that are painful, confusing, or stuck while still recognizing your humor, history, competence, contradictions, and capacity for change.
Center for Connection & Relationships
click. connect. love.
Center for Connection & Relationships click. connect. love.
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 for my dissertation. 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.
Click. Connect. Love. 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.
