Kristen Hagin, LMHC, LIMHP

Kristen Hagin is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 17 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and life transitions. She offers straightforward support and practical strategies for issues like grief, trauma, addiction, self-esteem, and relationship concerns. Kristen works with adults to address career pressure, parenting challenges, ADHD, and other everyday strains. Kristen uses approaches rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, client-centered listening, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She focuses on building coping skills, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and strengthening emotional regulation. Sessions often include specific tools to handle anxiety, manage cravings, or shift negative self-talk into more useful habits. Her background includes work in community behavioral health, youth-focused programs, and primary care settings. Kristen holds a Master of Arts from Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska, and is licensed as an LMHC in Washington and as a LIMHP in Nebraska. She tailors each plan to a person's needs, combining motivational interviewing and practical exercises when helpful. Some people choose therapy for skill-building, while others simply want a listening ear; Kristen accommodates both approaches. Kristen offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions with a variety of scheduling options. She helps people set realistic goals and tracks progress so changes feel manageable over time.

How CBT and Skills-Based Approaches Work Online

Kristen commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. CBT involves identifying stressful thought patterns, testing them against real situations, and practicing different reactions to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Client-centered work focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people find their own goals and solutions.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness when intense emotions or relationship patterns are a concern. DBT-style skills teach concrete ways to tolerate distress, manage strong feelings, and communicate more clearly with others. Kristen will collaborate to choose which approaches fit best, adapting methods to each person's goals and preferences rather than prescribing a single path.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for a full conversation and skills coaching, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.