Dr. Kristin Barnhart
Licensed Psychologist Providing Online Therapy for Couples and Individuals
Therapy services are provided through Breakthrough Counseling, LLC.
You may be here because your relationship feels tense, distant, or caught in a conflict loop.
Or you may be here because you’re anxious, stressed, depressed, grieving, or tired of holding everything together while feeling overwhelmed inside.
I’m Dr. Kristin Barnhart, a licensed psychologist in Connecticut and founder of Breakthrough Counseling. I provide online therapy for couples and individuals who want practical, compassionate support for relationship stress, communication struggles, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions.
I’m authorized through PSYPACT to provide telepsychology in 43 participating states, which means many clients outside Connecticut can meet with me through secure online therapy when they are located in a PSYPACT state.
If you previously knew me through relationship coaching, I’m so glad you’re here. My professional work is now centered through Breakthrough Counseling, where I provide online therapy as a licensed psychologist.
Online Therapy for Relationship Stress and Emotional Overwhelm
You don’t have to wait until everything falls apart to get support.
In relationship therapy, support can help when the same argument keeps coming back, conversations escalate quickly, one person shuts down, or emotional distance starts to feel normal.
Couples often reach out when they’re building a life together, planning a wedding, adjusting to marriage, parenting young children, managing family pressure, or wondering why communication has started to feel so hard.
In individual therapy, support can help when anxiety, stress, depression, grief, burnout, or life transitions are making daily life feel heavier than it looks from the outside.
Sometimes the pain shows up in your relationship. Sometimes it shows up inside you. Either way, therapy gives you a place to slow down, understand what’s happening, and begin responding with more clarity, steadiness, and support.
If you were searching for Dr. Kristin Barnhart, you’re in the right place. Therapy services are offered through Breakthrough Counseling.
If you were searching for online couples therapy, therapy for anxiety, therapy for depression, grief counseling, relationship counseling, or PSYPACT online therapy with Dr. Kristin Barnhart, this page can help you find the right next step.
Public Reviews for Breakthrough Counseling
Breakthrough Counseling has public Google reviews from people who describe Dr. Barnhart as calm, compassionate, knowledgeable, and easy to talk to.
"I was fortunate to have been a part of Dr. Kristin Barnhart’s group therapy session and witnessed her calm, gentle approach which quickly put her clients at ease. She was able to establish a rapport with each of the adults she was counseling while maintaining professionalism. Her knowledge and warmth were immediately evident as she effectively guided the group. Her passion in wanting to help her clients gain new skills and facilitate their growth comes shining through."
Mary Bowles
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Where to Work with Dr. Barnhart
Dr. Kristin Barnhart’s therapy services are offered through Breakthrough Counseling.
At Breakthrough Counseling, Dr. Barnhart works with couples who want to:
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Stop having the same fight over and over
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Communicate without everything escalating
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Rebuild trust after hurt or disconnection
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Feel emotionally close again
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Navigate engagement, marriage, parenting, empty nesting, or major life transitions
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Manage in-law stress, family pressure, and boundary struggles
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Feel more like a team during busy seasons of life
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Repair after conflict instead of staying stuck in silence, defensiveness, or resentment
Dr. Barnhart also supports people who are feeling:
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Anxious
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Stressed
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Depressed
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Overwhelmed
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Grieving
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Emotionally exhausted
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Burned out
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Stuck in a major life transition
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Unsure how to manage relationships, boundaries, or daily pressure
About Dr. Kristin Barnhart
Dr. Kristin Barnhart is a licensed psychologist in Connecticut, couples therapist, and founder of Breakthrough Counseling, LLC.
She provides online therapy for couples and individuals, with a clinical focus on communication, conflict, emotional disconnection, anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and relationship repair.
Dr. Barnhart is authorized through PSYPACT to provide telepsychology in participating states. She has been a licensed psychologist for 30 years and brings a warm, practical, and steady approach to therapy.
Each session is tailored to your unique needs, concerns, relationship patterns, and therapy goals.
With couples, her work helps partners slow down reactive patterns, communicate more clearly, and rebuild emotional connection.
Couples often work with Dr. Barnhart when they want help with recurring conflict, trust repair, emotional distance, premarital stress, newlywed stress, parenting stress, in-law stress, or feeling more connected amid a full life.
With individuals, her work supports people navigating anxiety, depression, grief, burnout, relationship strain, and major life transitions.
Dr. Barnhart’s approach is grounded in evidence-informed therapy approaches, while still being tailored to your life, your relationship patterns, your values, and what you want to feel different.
Depending on your needs, therapy may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, Family and Marital Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Strength-Based support.
Christian-integrated support is available upon request.
Therapy Services and Focus Areas
Therapy with Dr. Barnhart is practical, compassionate, and tailored to what you’re facing. Whether you’re coming as a couple or as an individual, support may focus on relationship stress, communication struggles, anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, or the patterns that keep you feeling stuck.
Below, you’ll find two kinds of support: therapy services and relationship or life concerns that often bring people to therapy.
Therapy Services
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Couples therapy
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Premarital counseling
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Individual therapy
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Online therapy
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Anxiety therapy
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Depression therapy
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Grief counseling
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Christian-integrated therapy upon request
Relationship and Life Concerns
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Communication struggles
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Conflict cycles
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Premarital and newlywed stress
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Marriage stress
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Parenting stress
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Family and in-law stress
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Boundaries and relationship strain
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Stress management
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Life transitions
What Happens Next
When you reach out, you can request a complimentary 15-minute introductory call. This gives you a chance to briefly share what’s going on, ask questions, and see whether working together may feel like a good fit.
You don’t need to know exactly what to say before you reach out. It can help to write down a few words about what has been feeling hard, what you want to feel different, and whether you’re looking for couples therapy, individual therapy, or both.
Therapy services are provided through Breakthrough Counseling.