About Kristy
Kristy Hamilton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings ten years of experience to her practice in California. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or major life changes. Her style is warm, practical, and collaborative so clients can talk through what matters most to them.
Kristy has worked in medical and hospice social work and has experience in dual-diagnosis and behavioral health clinic settings.
Background and approach
Those roles exposed her to a wide range of concerns including mood problems, addictions, trauma and abuse, sleep trouble, and caregiver stress. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, and challenges tied to parenting and family conflict. In sessions she listens first to understand each person's situation.
Then she uses clear, hands-on strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods, attachment-based ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered and solution-focused work to make plans that fit each person's life. Kristy often helps people apply new skills to daily routines, manage overwhelming emotions, and navigate transitions like moves, career shifts, or health changes.
Her clinical and life experience as a parent informs practical suggestions for stressed caregivers and people juggling many roles. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The goal is to find straightforward ways to reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning while working at a pace the client prefers.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Kristy commonly combines cognitive behavioral techniques with attachment-based and client-centered work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and habits so daily reactions feel more manageable, which can be useful for anxiety, sleep trouble, and mood issues. Attachment-based ideas look at patterns in close relationships and how past connections shape current behavior, which helps with intimacy, communication, and trust concerns. Client-centered methods emphasize listening and working at the client's pace while building practical solutions together.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kristy will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. The plan can change over time based on what helps most, and decisions are made together rather than imposed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it possible to maintain continuity of care and to choose formats that match day-to-day demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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