Hayley Kassraie
Calm guidance for real-life parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Hayley
Hayley Kassraie is a Licensed Professional Counselor who aims to make therapy approachable and practical. She uses a warm, down-to-earth style and a bit of humor to help people who feel stuck, anxious, or disconnected. Hayley focuses on building confidence, balance, and self-compassion so clients can move toward changes that matter.
She meets people where they are and works alongside them without judgment. Her sessions blend evidence-based techniques with a supportive presence.
Background and approach
Hayley draws on methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for managing distress and changing unhelpful patterns. She also uses Client-Centered and Solution-Focused approaches to keep work grounded in each person’s goals. With three years of clinical experience, Hayley emphasizes practical tools and steady encouragement.
She helps clients reconnect with what brings them joy, and to practice small steps that add up over time. Humor and perseverance are part of how she navigates tough moments. Hayley works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, addictions, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression.
Additional areas of focus include body image, forgiveness, isolation and loneliness, obsessive-compulsive patterns, personality issues, self-love, women’s issues, and young adult concerns. She provides services as an LPC licensed in Connecticut (CT LPC 8930) and conducts sessions in English. The overall aim is to help people build lasting skills and a clearer sense of direction, one steady step at a time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and creating a safe space for people to describe what matters most. It helps clients feel heard and clarifies personal goals so change can come from their own values and strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for managing anxiety, low mood, and patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for handling strong emotions and improving coping under stress. It supports learning mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and better interpersonal effectiveness.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, preferences, and goals, then suggest strategies that fit. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels doable and relevant.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to connect from home or during a busy week. These formats let people use flexible options for check-ins, skill practice, or longer conversations while keeping therapy consistent with daily life. Licensed professionals can adapt techniques to each format so progress continues even when schedules are tight.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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