Hello! Welcome to the Krista H Counseling blog.

On this site you will find content aimed at helping you handle stress and mental health concerns, such as anxiety and depression, that you might (because we ALL do) be experiencing on a regular or semi-regular basis. You’ll find coping skills, articles, and resources. You’ll find affirmations and questions to challenge negative thoughts. You’ll find ideas, tips, and tricks for handling stressors and all the emotions and thoughts we get to experience as humans.

I also hope you’ll find empathy and validation. My wish is for you to find HOPE. This is a safe space, and I hope you’re able to find tools that will help you feel better, think better, and be better prepared to handle whatever life has thrown your way.

As of August 2023, I’ve merged with Crayons and Compliance. I started Crayons and Compliance in 2017, when I was working with kids in therapy and passionate about providing resources to parents and therapists. I learned a lot while creating that blog, but wanted to switch things up for two reasons.

One reason is that I learned is that the word “compliance” is one that a lot of people have strong negative feelings about. In the behavior therapy word, compliance is a commonly used word and pretty neutral. But to a lot of people, “compliance” evokes images of tiny robot children who can’t think for themselves. I get it. So I’ve had some regret about the name of the blog.

The second reason is that my therapy work has shifted from children to adults. This happened about 3 years ago. I still work with some minors, but typically my youngest client is in middle school. About a year ago, I decided I wanted to set up a website that was more related to my counseling practice, but I was in this weird place with being torn between two blogs.

Because of these reasons, I decided to merge these two blogs. For now, Crayons and Compliance will redirect to Krista H Counseling. This may change, or may stay this way forever. We’ll see what happens. I’m pretty happy with this solution, and a big THANK YOU to my husband for helping me figure out how to make this happen.