Celita Hastie , LISW-CP

Celita Hastie is a licensed independent social worker and clinician with 18 years of experience helping people navigate everyday struggles. She is based in South Carolina and brings a steady, approachable style to sessions. Celita focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, self esteem, and compassion fatigue, with attention to body image, communication problems, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and women's issues.

She has spent much of her career working with teenagers through adults in individual and small group settings. Her sessions are straightforward and goal-focused. She balances task-oriented work with space for clients to release strong feelings when needed.

Celita often uses Motivational Interviewing and Solutions-Focused Therapy techniques to help people set clear goals and take practical steps. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and to shift unhelpful thinking patterns.

Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people make an action plan and checks in on progress. Clients can expect an open setting where thoughts and feelings can be discussed without judgment.

Celita recognizes that seeking help can feel risky and difficult. She aims to meet each person where they are and work at a pace that feels manageable. Her style fits people who want practical strategies alongside space to process emotions.

Evidence-based approaches and online care

Celita commonly draws on Motivational Interviewing and Solutions-Focused Therapy techniques to help clients set clear, achievable goals and take concrete steps toward change. Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve mixed feelings and build motivation for change, which can be useful for stress, self-care, and parenting challenges. Solutions-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical strategies and small experiments that move a person toward their goals rather than digging deeply into the past.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to examine how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact, and to teach tools for changing unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, mood concerns, and post-traumatic stress symptoms by breaking problems into manageable parts and practicing new responses.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to identify which techniques match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan over time based on how things are going.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can fit into busy days or provide ongoing brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into real life.