About Kristen
Kristen Hale is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 18 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, mood shifts, trauma, and relationship strain. Her approach is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more in control of daily life.
Kristen builds a trusting relationship that makes it easier to speak honestly. She focuses on practical steps that break unhelpful patterns and encourage healthier choices.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal oriented, with tools people can use between meetings. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including depression, panic, addictions, grief, and parenting stress. She also supports people coping with attachment wounds, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and post-traumatic stress.
Kristen pays attention to communication problems, impulsivity, and mood disorders when they affect everyday functioning. Kristen uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and EMDR methods to help process difficult memories.
Those tools are selected to fit the person rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Kristen practices in Hawaii and offers sessions in English. She works with people to set clear goals and track progress over time.
If someone wants to try online sessions or messaging, she explains how those formats can fit into their routine.
How Kristen's Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. Online sessions can help people see patterns in relationships and practice new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and depression going. In teletherapy CBT is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior experiments between sessions to see what changes.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist and client discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. They then pick methods and adjust them over time so the work fits the person's life and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, skills practice, or shorter exchanges between full sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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