About Kristen
Kristen Hagin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who offers calm, steady support for people feeling overwhelmed. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps. Her approach aims to help clients reduce anxiety, manage stress, and handle life changes one step at a time.
Kristen holds a Master’s degree from Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska and maintains licenses as an LMHC and a LIMHP. She has 17 years of experience working in community behavioral health, youth-focused services, and primary care settings.
Background and approach
That range gives her familiarity with many everyday struggles people bring to sessions. In sessions she uses client-centered methods and motivational interviewing to meet people where they are. She combines those with cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior strategies when clients want tools for managing thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
Mindfulness practices are offered for people who want to build calm and focus. Her style is practical and collaborative. She helps people develop skills for coping, building resilience, and improving relationships.
For some clients she provides a listening space without a heavy agenda when that is what is needed. Kristen offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules. She works from Nebraska and holds licenses in Washington and Nebraska.
People who want to start can use the site matching process to arrange a first session.
Therapeutic approaches and what online work looks like
Kristen uses client-centered therapy to give people space to talk and be heard while they set goals at their own pace. That approach focuses on empathy and understanding and is useful when someone needs a steady place to process feelings. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing the best approach is a shared process. Kristen works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and she will adapt techniques as progress is made or priorities shift. Some people begin with listening and then add skill work, while others start with targeted tools right away.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video is useful when visual connection helps build rapport, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or clients who prefer written communication. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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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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