About Hayley
Hayley Kassraie is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people work through anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, parenting strain, low self-esteem, and depression. She brings a warm, down-to-earth style to sessions and uses practical tools to help clients move forward. Many who come to her feel stuck or disconnected and want straightforward steps to feel better.
Hayley blends client-centered work with evidence-based techniques. She focuses on building confidence, balance, and self-compassion.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and gentle challenge to shift unhelpful patterns. Her approach is conversational and human. She uses humor when it fits and keeps things real and relatable.
The aim is to reconnect people with what brings them joy and meaning, not to overwhelm them with jargon. Hayley also addresses concerns like body image, forgiveness, isolation and loneliness, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, personality-related difficulties, and issues facing young adults and women.
She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior strategies alongside motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools to tailor the work. With three years of practice, she focuses on helping people build skills they can use between sessions. The work is collaborative: clients set goals and Hayley helps map the steps to reach them.
Her style is supportive, authentic, and focused on real change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and building a strong working relationship. In online sessions this means the therapist prioritizes the client's perspective and helps the client lead the conversation toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and compulsive behaviors and often includes homework like tracking thoughts or practicing new skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hayley will collaborate with each person to decide whether a client-centered emphasis, CBT tools, DBT skills, or another combination fits best. Goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands guide the plan so the approach feels useful and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and role-play skills. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or mobility is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit short conversations into a busy day. These options help people access consistent care and practice skills in real time while balancing work, school, or parenting.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English