About Kevin
Kevin Hoops is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona with 24 years of experience. He helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. He also supports people facing grief, anger, career questions, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and issues related to sexuality and identity.
Kevin speaks English and approaches each person with respect for their strengths and story. He starts by listening to what matters most to the person in front of him.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer communication. Kevin helps people name patterns, try new ways of relating, and build small habits that reduce stress and improve confidence. Kevin often addresses attachment and abandonment concerns alongside intimacy and kink-related topics.
He works with people on boundaries, consent, and healthier sexual expression when that is part of their goals. He also supports those coping with family-of-origin problems, divorce, or recovery from domestic violence and addiction. His style is direct but respectful.
He encourages people to set realistic goals and checks progress each step of the way. When useful, he pairs coaching-style feedback with evidence-based therapeutic techniques suited to the client's situation. Prospective clients are invited to share what they hope to change and what has worked before.
Kevin aims to create clear plans that fit a person's life and schedule. He believes small changes, practiced over time, lead to better daily functioning and more satisfying relationships.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kevin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clearer relationships. One approach centers on improving communication and attachment patterns - helping people name how they relate, try new responses, and repair trust after conflict. This work is useful for intimacy problems, commitment worries, and family-of-origin issues.Another approach targets mood and anxiety symptoms through step-by-step coping skills. These techniques teach stress management, emotion regulation, and behavioral changes to reduce depressive or anxious patterns. They fit concerns like depression, bipolar mood stabilization, grief, and managing everyday stress.
Finding the right mix of methods is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to prioritize and how to pace the work.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is easier. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style feedback, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English