About Hayley
Hayley Kassraie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people managing stress and anxiety. She meets clients where they are and focuses on small, practical steps that add up to change. Her approach is warm and straightforward, with a bit of humor when it fits.
Hayley hears clients who feel stuck, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward. She works alongside them to rebuild confidence, balance daily life, and grow self-compassion.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on identifying unhelpful patterns and trying simple skills between visits. Her style blends Client-Centered Therapy with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. That means conversations stay focused on the client's goals, while also practicing skills to manage emotions and rethink stressful thoughts.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy add a practical, goal-oriented layer to the work. Hayley brings three years of clinical experience in Connecticut to her practice. She supports people dealing with addictions, low self-esteem, depression, and parenting stress, along with concerns about body image, forgiveness, isolation, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
Her work also addresses personality-related patterns, self-love, women's issues, and challenges common to young adults. She aims to create an authentic, often laughter-filled space where clients can try new strategies without pressure. The process is collaborative: Hayley helps pick approaches that fit each person's needs and pace, and she values steady progress over quick fixes.
Approach-driven online care for stress and anxiety
Hayley uses Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize a person's experience and goals, creating conversation that follows what matters most to the client and supports their own insights. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts and to practice concrete techniques that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that help when feelings feel overwhelming and relationships are strained.Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Hayley will work with each person to identify what matters most, try techniques in session, and adjust based on what helps. The goal is to find practical tools that fit day-to-day life and the client's personal preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. Video sessions allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats aim to increase flexibility while keeping the focus on skill building and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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