About Kimberlyn
Kimberlyn Hastey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, low self-esteem, grief, and issues around intimacy and parenting. Kimberlyn uses straightforward, person-centered care to support each client's goals and pace.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns that keep problems going and to build practical skills for change.
How Kimberlyn works
Narrative work is used to help clients reframe their life stories and find new meaning. Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies offer tools for calm and for quick, manageable steps forward. Kimberlyn has worked with a wide range of life concerns, including support for people in the LGBT community, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses complex topics such as dissociation, family of origin issues, body image, and guilt and shame. Her practice includes care for people experiencing bipolar symptoms, anger, commitment and communication problems, and coping with life changes. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Kimberlyn aims to make goals clear and achievable. She helps people create skills they can use outside of sessions. Her background includes long-term clinical work across settings and populations.
Kimberlyn values each person's story and approaches therapy as a shared process where the client leads and she offers guidance, tools, and support.
Kimberlyn lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Kimberlyn works with
The areas below are the ones Kimberlyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Kimberlyn's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work puts the person's experience first. The therapist follows the client's lead and helps them set goals that feel right. This approach supports people who want to be understood and to shape their own pace of change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with practical skills. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems like anger or low self-esteem. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves, which can reduce shame and open paths to healing.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kimberlyn will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. She adapts methods over time so the approach fits the client's needs and progress.
Online therapy makes sessions more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and brief skill practice between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain momentum between meetings.
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