Kimberlyn Hastey, LPC

Kimberlyn Hastey, LPC, helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and challenges with self-esteem. She offers a calm, direct style that focuses on practical steps and personal strengths. Her work is grounded in talking through what feels hard now and finding ways to manage daily life.

With 15 years of experience, Kimberlyn draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and narrative approaches to help clients reframe unhelpful thoughts and make sense of painful stories. She combines those with client-centered listening so the person’s goals lead the work. Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward.

She has supported people with grief, caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood challenges, and intimacy or communication issues. Kimberlyn also addresses body image, gender dysphoria, family of origin concerns, and recovery from abuse. Her background includes practice with a diverse range of life experiences.

Her sessions often include simple skills you can use between meetings, short goal-oriented plans, and chance to reframe difficult memories. Mindfulness tools and solution-focused steps are used when they match a person’s needs. She emphasizes small, achievable changes.

Kimberlyn meets people where they are and adjusts pace to what they can handle. She values the client’s story and treats each person as the expert on their life. The result is practical support aimed at clearer thinking and steadier days.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Kimberlyn often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT provides concrete skills to manage anxiety, low mood, and stress, and it usually includes practical homework between sessions. She also draws on Narrative Therapy to help people reorder painful experiences and find different meanings in their life stories. Narrative work can reduce shame and create room for new choices.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberlyn listens to what matters most to each person, discusses options, and adjusts methods based on goals and preferences. Together the client and therapist pick strategies that feel useful and realistic for daily life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options aim to make it easier to keep continuity and fit therapy into real life.