About Kristy
Kristy Hamilton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship or intimacy struggles, low self-esteem, depression, addiction, parenting strain, or major life changes. She uses a warm, respectful, and practical style.
Sessions are collaborative and interactive. Kristy listens first to understand each person’s situation before deciding what to try next. In session she focuses on the present while also noticing how past experiences shape current patterns.
How Kristy works
She helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, practice new ways of coping, and set small, achievable goals. Techniques come from cognitive behavioral approaches, attachment-focused work, client-centered care, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and solution-focused thinking. Kristy has worked in medical and hospice social work, run a dual-diagnosis program, and provided behavioral health care in clinic settings.
That background informs a practical approach to complex situations such as co-occurring concerns, chronic health issues, caregiver stress, and substance use challenges. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to people in California.
She draws on personal parenting experience alongside her clinical work to support people through short or longer term needs and to help them move forward from difficult moments.
Kristy lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Kristy works with
The areas below are the ones Kristy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Kristy draws on cognitive behavioral work to help people identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors, which can be done in conversation and with simple homework between sessions. Attachment-based approaches focus on patterns in relationships and emotional needs, useful for people working through intimacy, abandonment, or communication issues. Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person’s own goals and pace, with the therapist following the client’s lead to build understanding and trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kristy will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adjusts methods over time so the plan matches what is helping in real life, and makes decisions collaboratively rather than imposing a single style.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is helpful for more in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different schedules.
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