About Kristin
Kristin Hassell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction struggles, and related life challenges. She draws on nine years of clinical experience to offer steady support when everyday coping feels overwhelming.
Kristin aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where someone can talk through what matters most to them. Her approach mixes practical skills with time to reflect.
Background and approach
She uses methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and reconnect with what matters. Sessions include clear tools for handling intense feelings and habit changes, alongside chances to explore personal values and goals. Kristin has worked with a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, ADHD, and substance use.
She also supports people facing career transitions, compassion fatigue, and questions about life purpose. Her background includes experience with multicultural issues and veteran and armed forces concerns. In session, Kristin often invites small experiments to test new ways of coping.
She blends acceptance strategies with cognitive work and mindfulness practices to reduce suffering and increase meaningful action. Conversations are collaborative and paced to a client's needs. Kristin provides services from Virginia and runs sessions in English.
She offers flexible formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Kristin commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then choose actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and motivation issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change outcomes; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills training.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Kristin discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adjusts methods as needed. She collaborates with each person to try tools and see what feels most helpful, mixing ACT, CBT, and mindfulness techniques when appropriate.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, while phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions and can fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy going through life changes and competing demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- 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
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