About Misty
Misty Humphrey helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or big life changes. She is based in Kansas and brings eight years of professional experience to sessions. Misty aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for someone who is worried or unsure.
She uses a mix of practical techniques to address common struggles like low mood, low self-esteem, and social anxiety. Her work includes support for people coping with trauma and abuse, and she also focuses on codependency, guilt, and first responder issues.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on realistic steps clients can try between meetings. Misty practices Accelerated Resolution Therapy and combines it with cognitive behavioral skills and dialectical behavior skills. That combination helps people notice unhelpful patterns, change upsetting thoughts, and build steadier emotional coping.
She explains tools plainly and practices them together with clients so they feel usable in daily life. In the therapy space she aims to keep conversations open and nonjudgmental. Misty invites clients to talk about thoughts and feelings at their own pace.
She emphasizes small, steady progress rather than quick fixes. Practical needs are part of the plan. Sessions can include skill coaching, breathing and grounding techniques, and steps to reduce avoidant behaviors.
Misty encourages questions about technique and adjusts work to match each person’s goals and circumstances.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Accelerated Resolution Therapy focuses on processing traumatic memories in a targeted way to reduce their emotional hold; it can help people who feel stuck by past events. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect, and teach practical steps to change patterns that feed anxiety or depression. Dialectical behavior skills provide tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions feel intense.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try strategies together and adjust over time to find what fits best.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps learning and demonstration. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when being on camera is difficult. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or a written way to reflect that some people prefer. These options make it easier to fit therapy into varied schedules and daily routines.
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Also listed
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English