About Kimberlyn
Kimberlyn Hastey is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She brings 15 years of experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. Kimberlyn works with adults across many backgrounds, including people from the LGBT community, and those coping with loss, caregiving strain, or major life changes.
She centers therapy on each person's story and goals. Sessions focus on practical steps and understanding what led to current struggles.
Background and approach
Kimberlyn draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and on narrative approaches to reframe personal stories. Clients can expect a collaborative, respectful process. Kimberlyn listens first, then offers tools that fit the person and situation.
She uses mindfulness practices for grounding and solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable goals. Her background includes long-term work with adults across a wide range of concerns, from mood disorders and grief to anger and identity questions. She has experience with first responder stress, caregiver strain, and issues like dissociation, body image, and guilt or shame.
In sessions she aims to help people build clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better daily coping. The work is practical and paced to each person’s needs. Kimberlyn supports people as they test new ways of thinking and behaving and track small steps forward.
Approaches that fit your online therapy needs
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and goals. The therapist listens carefully and follows the person's lead while gently offering reflections. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful, collaborative space to talk through hard things.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It uses clear, practical exercises to shift thinking patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. That approach is often helpful for coping with stress, mood shifts, and decision-making during life changes.
Mindfulness therapy adds simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily reactions without judgment. These practices can help with grounding during stress, managing intense emotions, and improving focus in daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and comfort. Sessions may change over time as priorities shift and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read visual cues and have fuller conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, homework sharing, or quick coping reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English