About Kristen
Kristen Hagin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and everyday struggles. She brings a calm, down-to-earth presence to sessions and listens without judgment. Kristen aims to help clients build practical skills they can use between meetings.
She holds a Master’s degree from Grace University and carries licenses in both Washington and Nebraska as LMHC and LIMHP. With 17 years of experience, Kristen has worked in community behavioral health, youth-focused settings, and within primary care.
Background and approach
She draws on a mix of approaches to match what each person needs rather than using one fixed method. Common goals in her work include stronger coping skills, better self-esteem, and clearer goals for career or life changes. Kristen often uses Motivational Interviewing and client-centered methods to help people find their own reasons and strengths for change.
She also integrates cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness techniques when those fit, teaching concrete tools for managing worry, mood, and urges. Sessions can be skills-focused or more of an emotional outlet depending on what someone asks for. People can expect direct, practical guidance paired with patient listening.
Kristen emphasizes building resilience after trauma, improving relationships, and addressing issues like grief, addiction, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people working through body image, caregiver stress, and work-related concerns. Kristen offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Her practice in Nebraska is informed by long experience across settings and a straightforward, collaborative style.
How Kristen’s approach transfers to online therapy
Kristen blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral tools to make online sessions practical and focused. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person’s lead, which helps people feel heard and understood in a video or phone conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which translates well to online work when homework and skill practice are shared between sessions.Finding the right fit is part of the process. Kristen will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether more skills training, motivational coaching, or a listening-based approach suits the situation, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth sessions and skill demonstrations. Phone calls can be a simpler check-in or used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts between visits or fit a short session into a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, parenting, or other demands while keeping therapy practical and goal oriented.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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