Hayley Kassraie, LPC

Hayley Kassraie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on Thoughts and everyday habits that affect stress, anxiety, and self-esteem. She greets people with warmth and a sense of humor while helping them move from feeling stuck to feeling more balanced. Hayley aims to help clients reconnect with what brings them joy and build habits that support everyday wellbeing.

Her sessions tend to be supportive and authentic. She blends client-centered listening with practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches. That means time is spent understanding what matters to each person, and then practicing small changes that add up over time.

Hayley also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when those fit a person’s needs. These approaches help with managing intense emotions, staying motivated through change, and creating routines that reduce stress. She often frames work as learning new skills rather than fixing a person.

People come to her for a range of concerns, including parenting strain, addiction-related struggles, body image, and obsessive or compulsive thoughts. She supports work on forgiveness, self-love, and reducing loneliness in everyday life.

Hayley has three years of clinical experience working with adults in Connecticut. Conversations in sessions are practical, down-to-earth, and focused on what a person can do between meetings to feel better. If someone is ready to start, she asks them to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on her availability.

How her approaches shape online work

Hayley uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques in her work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and understanding a person’s goals, helping them choose changes that feel right. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at everyday thoughts and habits and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or low mood.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed. DBT skills are useful for managing intense feelings and building routines that prevent crisis. Together these approaches give tools for both immediate coping and longer-term habit change.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Hayley treats the first sessions as a chance to figure out which methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She works collaboratively to adjust techniques as the work progresses so the plan stays practical and relevant.

Confirm the available session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a work break, or remove the need to be on camera when that feels uncomfortable. These practical benefits often help people maintain steady progress between sessions.