About Kristin
Kristin Hassell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction issues, and stress. She works with adults who are seeking clearer coping skills, steadier mood, or support through major life changes. Kristin is straightforward and calm in sessions, and she aims to make difficult topics easier to talk about.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral work to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different choices.
Background and approach
Kristin also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to keep the focus on each person’s values and present-moment experience. This mix lets her tailor short-term skill work and longer conversations about patterns that keep causing pain. With nine years of experience, Kristin brings both depth and down-to-earth guidance.
She holds licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and also lists Licensed Professional Counselor credentials used in other states. Her background includes work with people managing trauma, substance use, mood disorders, and relationship stress. Sessions typically focus on clear goals and small, doable steps.
Kristin offers coaching-style support when clients want practical planning for career or life transitions. She also helps people work through grief, burnout, and struggles with self-esteem. People who value a direct but compassionate approach may find her style helpful.
Kristin practices in Virginia and offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Kristin often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and experiment with different behaviors. CBT is a hands-on way to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and manage addictive patterns by practicing new responses.She also works from a client-centered perspective that keeps each person’s goals and values at the center. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people decide what matters most to them. Mindfulness techniques are used alongside these methods to build awareness, ease reactivity, and support emotional regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kristin will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means adjusting the balance of skills training, reflective conversation, and values-focused work as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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