Kristen Phillips is a licensed school counselor, teen anxiety coach, and the host of the Anxious Christian Teen podcast. She helps Christian teen girls quiet the anxious, "never enough" thoughts and find their worth in who God says they are, not in their grades, their looks, or what everyone else thinks. Kristen knows this world firsthand. She was the anxious teen who looked fine on the outside and felt the pressure on the inside, and now she spends her days (in the school counselor's office and behind the mic) helping girls put words to that same feeling.

Kristen Phillips is a licensed PreK-12 school counselor, teen anxiety coach, and the founder of Kristen Phillips Coaching, LLC. She's the host of Anxious Christian Teen, a top-ranked podcast helping Christian teen girls manage anxiety and build real, lasting confidence through a faith-first lens.

Kristen has spent almost two decades in education, first as a high school science teacher starting in 2007, and since 2019, as a school counselor. That's thousands of hours sitting across from teen girls who look completely put-together on the outside and are quietly falling apart on the inside. She knows that girl well, because she was her. Good grades, lead roles in the school play, a full friend group, starter on the team, and still second-guessing everything: what she wore, a haircut, whether the guy she liked actually liked her back, or if her friends just tolerated her or really wanted her there. That constant tension between being the "good girl" for the adults and fitting in with her peers never let up.

That's the gap Kristen built her work to close. Through her podcast, coaching, and the PEACE framework, she gives Christian teen girls (and the moms raising them) practical tools for real, day-to-day life, not just a verse to memorize and move on. She believes peace isn't something a girl has to earn. It's something she can learn, one honest conversation at a time.

Kristen lives in Alabama, where she's usually found on the sidelines of one of her kid's games, in the pool, at the piano, or reading.