About Kristen
Kristen Hagin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings 17 years of experience to her work. She offers steady, straightforward support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and life transitions. Kristen aims to help clients feel understood while building practical skills for daily life.
She holds a Master’s degree from Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska, and is licensed in Washington and Nebraska as LMHC and LIMHP.
Background and approach
Her past work includes community behavioral health and settings that focused on youth and primary care, so she is familiar with both short-term and ongoing support needs. Kristen uses a person-centered attitude in sessions, which means listening first and shaping the work around the client. She also draws on motivational interviewing and evidence-based skills to help people set goals and stay motivated.
Sessions often include clear techniques you can use between meetings to manage mood and behavior. Some people come for skill-building around coping, relationships, or ADHD. Others use therapy as a space to process trauma, rebuild self-esteem, or work through grief.
Kristen also offers coaching-style support when someone needs a focused plan for career or life changes. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Scheduling is handled through the site - clients complete a short questionnaire and then pick a time that works for them.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Kristen blends person-centered work with motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients get unstuck and make measurable changes. Person-centered work means she listens closely and follows the client’s lead, creating space to name what matters most. Motivational interviewing focuses on building a client's own reasons for change and strengthening commitment to goals. Cognitive behavioral work breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small steps and teaches practical coping tools for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative effort. Kristen will discuss your goals and preferences, try strategies that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She aims to balance emotional support with action-oriented skills so clients leave sessions with something usable for the week ahead.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skill practice, while phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Chat and messaging provide brief check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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