Kristy Hamilton, LCSW

Kristy Hamilton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in California with ten years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, and life transitions.

Kristy’s background includes medical and hospice social work, program management in a dual-diagnosis facility, and work as a behavioral health provider in clinic settings. That mix gives her experience with caregiving stress, aging issues, chronic illness, and complex medical and mental health needs.

In sessions she listens first to understand the immediate problem and the factors that feed it. She uses practical, interactive methods to identify patterns that keep difficulties going. Kristy draws on cognitive behavioral tools to adjust unhelpful thinking and on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current problems.

She also uses client-centered and motivational techniques to help people decide which changes matter most and to build realistic steps toward them. Many clients come for help with communication, boundaries, control issues, codependency, or coping after loss and big life changes.

Kristy’s experience as a parent and as a clinician working across medical and behavioral settings informs her approach. She aims to be straightforward and collaborative, helping people plan concrete changes they can try between sessions. If you need practical help with career stress, caregiver burden, or managing mood and impulsive behaviors, she can work with you to set focused goals.

Therapeutic approaches and remote sessions