About Kristin
Kristin Hassell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and relationship struggles. She writes plainly and keeps sessions focused on practical steps. Kristin aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through immediate concerns and plan for change.
With nine years of experience, Kristin draws on several well-known approaches to tailor sessions to each person. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop new coping skills.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to teach present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Kristin also works from a client-centered standpoint, keeping the person’s goals at the center of sessions and listening closely to what matters most. When addiction or harmful behaviors are involved, she combines motivational interviewing with practical planning to support safer choices and next steps.
Sessions are set up to address day-to-day problems like work stress, parenting strain, and grief as well as longer-standing issues such as trauma, bipolar mood concerns, or patterns tied to family of origin. She also offers support around identity and LGBT-related concerns and multicultural challenges. People who choose Kristin can expect a collaborative approach that mixes skill-building with honest conversation.
She encourages clear goals, small experiments between sessions, and steady follow-through to help people make changes that last.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kristin often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot thought patterns that lead to distress and to practice new coping skills. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems because it focuses on small, testable changes.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which teaches people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. ACT can be helpful for managing long-standing worries, avoidance, and life transitions. Kristin’s client-centered stance keeps each session grounded in what the person wants to achieve and how they prefer to work.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Clients and the therapist set short-term goals and check progress together to find a good fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for face-to-face interaction and working on behavioral skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, family, and other obligations.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Texas, Florida
- Languages
- English