About Kristen
Kristen Hale is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 18 years of experience to her work. She focuses on creating a straightforward, trusting relationship so people can talk honestly about what’s hard. Kristen aims to help clients notice strengths, break unhelpful patterns, and try new ways of living and relating.
Her practice addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She also helps people dealing with trauma, self-harm, panic, impulsivity, and ADHD-related struggles.
Background and approach
Relationship and communication problems, parenting stress, blended family issues, and intimacy-related concerns are also part of her focus. Kristen uses several approaches to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for managing emotion and impulse. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early connections shape current relationships and on EMDR for trauma processing. Kristen emphasizes clear communication and practical tools.
Sessions often include skill practice, gentle processing of painful memories, and steps to improve day-to-day coping. She works collaboratively to set goals that feel realistic and useful. Based in Hawaii, Kristen holds LCSW credentials in Hawaii and Colorado.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. She provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kristen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day coping problems because it focuses on practical steps and small experiments.She also draws on EMDR for processing traumatic memories. EMDR uses guided attention and memory work to reduce the intensity of painful memories and their impact on current life. Attachment-Based Therapy is another influence and helps people understand how early relationships affect current trust, communication, and intimacy.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristen will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. She treats the choice as collaborative and will adjust methods based on how the work is progressing.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can fit a short check-in or low-bandwidth needs, chat works well for shorter exchanges, and messaging lets people check in between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across locations.
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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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