About Kristy
Kristy Hamilton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and a range of mood and life-change issues. She offers a calm, practical style and listens first to learn what matters to each person. Her approach is collaborative and focused on making small, useful changes that fit into everyday life.
Kristy has ten years of professional experience, including work as a medical and hospice social worker and roles in a dual-diagnosis facility and outpatient clinic.
Background and approach
That background exposed her to grief, addiction, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and complex mood disorders. She describes her work as down-to-earth and tailored to the situation in front of her. In sessions she draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and attachment-based ideas.
Kristy focuses on present problems while also looking at how past experiences influence current patterns. She aims to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce distress. Kristy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Her independent practice schedule is flexible and can accommodate varied routines. She works with adults who want practical guidance for issues such as parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, compulsions, and career stress. Raised in varied communities and having lived abroad, Kristy brings cultural awareness and respect for individual backgrounds.
She encourages people to name their priorities, try manageable steps, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Kristy uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered methods to help people change unhelpful thinking and focus on practical steps. CBT involves identifying patterns of thought that make feelings worse and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, compulsions, or mood symptoms. Client-centered work emphasizes listening and tailoring the pace and goals to each person, useful for relationship, intimacy, and self-esteem concerns.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Kristy will discuss options with you, weigh your goals and preferences, and adjust techniques over time. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels doable and relevant to your life rather than a one-size-fits-all program.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets you work face-to-face and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to get consistent support while juggling daily responsibilities.
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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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