Website Terms of Use and Professional Disclaimer

Last updated: June 15, 2026

These Website Terms of Use and Professional Disclaimer (“Terms”) apply to KristinBarnhart.com, a professional and informational website operated by Breakthrough Counseling, LLC (“Breakthrough Counseling,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By using kristinbarnhart.com, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use this website.

In Plain English

Kristinbarnhart.com is a public professional website for Dr. Kristin Barnhart.

You can use this website to learn about Dr. Barnhart, read educational content, request resources, join the email list, contact the practice, or learn how to connect with Breakthrough Counseling.

This website is not therapy.

It does not provide diagnosis, treatment, crisis support, legal guidance, court-related guidance, custody advice, or personalized mental health advice.

Using this website, submitting a form, sending an email, downloading a resource, reading a blog post, or following Dr. Barnhart on social media does not make you a therapy client.

Therapy services are provided separately through Breakthrough Counseling and are governed by separate clinical consent forms, policies, and privacy documents.

What This Website Is For

Kristinbarnhart.com is an informational and professional website for Dr. Kristin Barnhart.\

The website may include:

Information about Dr. Barnhart
Educational blog content
Relationship and emotional wellness resources
Links to Breakthrough Counseling
Free-resource forms
Contact forms
Email-list invitations
Speaking, media, referral, or collaboration information
Links to reviews or public profiles
Links to third-party websites or services

Therapy services are offered through Breakthrough Counseling, LLC and its therapy website, thebreakthroughcounselor.com.

What This Website Is Not For

Kristinbarnhart.com is not therapy.

It is not a client portal.

It should not be used to submit therapy forms, treatment updates, clinical questions, payment information, insurance information, urgent messages, crisis details, or legal documents.

This website is also not intended for:

Diagnosis
Treatment recommendations
Clinical advice
Crisis support
Legal advice
Custody advice
Court-related guidance
Forensic opinions
Emergency communication
Secure clinical communication
Requests for letters, records, testimony, or legal opinions

Current therapy clients should use the communication methods provided through Breakthrough Counseling’s clinical systems and policies.

No Psychologist-Patient Relationship

Using kristinbarnhart.com does not create a psychologist-patient relationship, therapist-client relationship, fiduciary relationship, or other professional clinical relationship with Dr. Kristin Barnhart or Breakthrough Counseling.

A clinical relationship is established only after the appropriate consultation, eligibility determination, informed-consent process, and intake requirements have been completed through Breakthrough Counseling.

A clinical relationship is not created by:

Visiting this website
Reading blog posts or educational content
Downloading a free resource
Joining the email list
Submitting a contact form
Sending an email
Calling or texting Google Voice
Following or messaging on social media
Reading or responding to public content
Receiving a general response to an inquiry

Educational Information Only

The information on kristinbarnhart.com is provided for general educational and informational purposes.

Website content may address topics such as relationships, communication, emotional wellness, therapy education, stress, anxiety, depression, grief, boundaries, conflict, family dynamics, or life transitions.

This content is not individualized therapy, couples therapy, psychological treatment, medical advice, diagnosis, clinical assessment, crisis support, legal advice, forensic advice, custody advice, court-related guidance, or a substitute for professional care.

You should not rely on website content as a replacement for therapy, medical care, legal advice, crisis services, or other professional support.

If you need mental health care, please contact a qualified professional in your state or jurisdiction.

If you need legal advice, custody advice, or court-related guidance, please contact an attorney or other appropriately qualified professional.

No Diagnosis, Treatment, or Clinical Advice Through This Website

Breakthrough Counseling does not provide diagnosis, treatment recommendations, clinical advice, or crisis support through KristinBarnhart.com, ordinary email, Google Voice, text message, contact forms, blog comments, social media, or public-facing website tools.

Any information shared through the website is general and educational.

Responses to inquiries are not therapy and should not be treated as clinical guidance.

Emergencies and Crisis Support

Do not use kristinbarnhart.com, the contact form, ordinary email, Google Voice, text messages, or social media for emergencies, urgent clinical needs, or crisis support.

Communications may not be reviewed immediately.

Submitting a form, email, text message, voicemail, or social media message does not guarantee a response or a response within any particular time frame.

Breakthrough Counseling does not continuously monitor social media platforms, review platforms, email platforms, Google Business Profile, website forms, or other third-party websites.

If you are experiencing an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

In the United States, you may also call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

If you are outside the United States, contact your local emergency number or crisis service.

Contact Forms and Sensitive Information

Kristinbarnhart.com may include a contact form with an open message field.

Please share only the information reasonably necessary for us to understand your request and respond.

Do not submit:

Detailed health information
Treatment records
Therapy records
Diagnostic reports
Medication lists
Full insurance information
Social Security numbers
Payment-card information
Legal documents
Court documents
Custody documents
Screenshots of private conversations
Identification documents
Crisis details
Emergency information

Please do not paste, upload, summarize, or send therapy records, legal records, court documents, custody documents, medical records, diagnostic reports, screenshots of private conversations, insurance cards, identification documents, or other sensitive records through this website.

The contact form is not intended for secure clinical communication and is not a HIPAA-protected communication channel.

Submitting a contact form does not create a psychologist-patient relationship.

If you submit sensitive information through the website anyway, we may use it only as reasonably necessary to respond to your inquiry, route your inquiry, maintain appropriate records, comply with legal obligations, or protect safety.

We may choose not to respond to messages that are inappropriate, threatening, abusive, outside the purpose of the website, related to urgent clinical needs, or better addressed through Breakthrough Counseling’s formal clinical process.

Website Support Providers

Breakthrough Counseling may use a virtual assistant, contractor, website manager, or other administrative support provider to help operate and maintain kristinbarnhart.com.

These support providers may help with non-clinical website tasks, such as:

Updating website pages
Formatting or posting blog content
Maintaining website links
Supporting website forms
Making accessibility updates
Coordinating technical website updates
Reviewing general website performance
Supporting email-list or free-resource functions
Helping with other administrative website tasks

Website support providers are not therapy providers.

They do not provide diagnosis, treatment, clinical advice, crisis support, therapy services, or responses to urgent concerns.

The virtual assistant does not have access to Breakthrough Counseling’s:

Clinical records
Therapy notes
Psychotherapy notes
Treatment records
Diagnostic information
Client portal
Clinical communication systems
Client intake forms
Informed-consent documents
Notice of Privacy Practices records
Billing records
Insurance information
Payment-card information
Medication information
Records requests
Subpoena-related communications
Legal documents
Custody-related materials
Crisis messages
Urgent clinical messages

The virtual assistant is not authorized to review, respond to, manage, forward, download, copy, save, summarize, or store therapy-related information, clinical questions, crisis concerns, urgent needs, treatment updates, records requests, subpoena-related communications, legal documents, custody-related materials, insurance information, billing information, or payment information.

Submitting a form, email, voicemail, text message, or social media message through public-facing tools does not guarantee that it will be reviewed immediately, routed to a clinical system, or reviewed by Dr. Kristin Barnhart.

Please share only the information reasonably necessary for us to understand your request and respond.

Do not use kristinbarnhart.com or public-facing communication tools to submit therapy records, treatment updates, clinical questions, legal documents, insurance information, payment information, or urgent messages.

Legal, Court, Custody, and Records Requests

Please do not use this website to send information about active or potential legal proceedings, custody disputes, divorce proceedings, subpoenas, court orders, or requests for letters, records, testimony, or legal opinions.

If a legal matter is involved, please wait until you are directed to the appropriate Breakthrough Counseling process.

Nothing on this website should be understood as forensic advice, custody advice, legal advice, or court-related guidance.

Therapy Services and Clinical Documents

Therapy services are provided through Breakthrough Counseling, LLC.

If you become a therapy client, your therapy services may be governed by separate documents, including:

Informed consent forms
Clinical policies
Notice of Privacy Practices
Telehealth policies
Payment and cancellation policies
Communication policies
Any other documents provided through Breakthrough Counseling

These Terms do not replace those clinical documents.

If there is a conflict between these general website Terms and Breakthrough Counseling’s clinical policies for therapy clients, the applicable clinical policies control for therapy services.

Eligibility and Geographic Limitations

The website is primarily intended for adults located in the United States.

Dr. Kristin Barnhart is licensed in Connecticut and may be authorized through PsyPact to provide telepsychology in participating states, subject to current PsyPact rules, state laws, client location, eligibility, and clinical appropriateness.

The availability of therapy services depends on several factors, including your location, clinical needs, licensure rules, availability, fit, and completion of Breakthrough Counseling’s intake process.

Accessing this website from a particular state or country does not mean that Breakthrough Counseling can provide therapy services in that location.

Nothing on this website guarantees that Breakthrough Counseling can provide therapy services to you.

Professional Referrals

Professionals, organizations, clergy, physicians, therapists, attorneys, educators, or other referral sources may use the website to request information or make a referral.

Referral sources should provide only the information reasonably necessary for Breakthrough Counseling to understand the referral request.

Please do not submit detailed health records, diagnostic reports, legal documents, insurance documents, crisis details, or highly sensitive information through the public website form.

Submitting a referral does not guarantee that Breakthrough Counseling can accept the person referred.

Speaking, Media, Podcast, and Collaboration Inquiries

Kristinbarnhart.com may be used for professional, speaking, media, podcast, interview, referral, or collaboration inquiries.

Submitting an inquiry does not create a professional engagement, speaking agreement, media agreement, consulting relationship, therapy relationship, or other formal relationship.

Any speaking, media, or collaboration arrangement must be separately discussed and agreed upon in writing.

Email List and Free Resources

Kristinbarnhart.com may offer free resources, blog invitations, or email-list opportunities.

By submitting an email form, you may receive the requested resource and educational emails from Breakthrough Counseling.

Emails may include relationship education, therapy-related education, emotional wellness content, professional updates, blog updates, or information about Breakthrough Counseling.

Email content is general and educational. It is not therapy, clinical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or crisis support.

Current therapy clients may unsubscribe from educational emails at any time.

Unsubscribing from marketing or educational emails does not affect therapy services.

You may unsubscribe from marketing or educational emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email.

Former Kristin Barnhart, LLC Content and Records

Kristin Barnhart, LLC previously operated coaching, educational, and digital-resource activities associated with kristinbarnhart.com.

Kristin Barnhart, LLC is being dissolved. Breakthrough Counseling, LLC has assumed responsibility for applicable business records retained from the former Kristin Barnhart, LLC coaching business.

Some prior coaching-related educational content, resources, emails, or references may continue to exist in archived materials, email records, downloadable resources, or business records.

Former coaching content was educational in nature and was not therapy, psychological treatment, diagnosis, clinical advice, or a substitute for professional care.

Intellectual Property

The content on kristinbarnhart.com belongs to Breakthrough Counseling, LLC or is used with permission, unless otherwise stated.

This includes, but is not limited to:

Website copy
Blog posts
Downloadable resources
Images
Graphics
Logos
Page layouts
Educational materials
Email content
Free resources
Frameworks, phrases, and original written materials

You may view, download, or print website materials for your own personal, noncommercial use.

You may not copy, reproduce, republish, sell, distribute, modify, teach from, create derivative works from, or use website content for commercial purposes without written permission from Breakthrough Counseling.

You may not present Dr. Kristin Barnhart’s content, resources, or frameworks as your own.

You may not scrape, copy, extract, reproduce, or use website content, resources, blog posts, or downloadable materials to train artificial intelligence systems, create competing materials, populate databases, or generate commercial content without written permission from Breakthrough Counseling.

You may not use website content, free resources, blog posts, frameworks, or educational materials to teach, train, supervise, coach, counsel, present, or provide professional services to others without written permission from Breakthrough Counseling.

Permitted Use

You may use kristinbarnhart.com for lawful, personal, informational, and professional inquiry purposes.

You agree not to:

Use the website for unlawful purposes
Submit false, misleading, harmful, or abusive information
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website or related systems
Interfere with website security or functionality
Copy, scrape, harvest, or misuse website content
Use website content to train artificial intelligence systems without permission
Use website content to create competing products, services, resources, or professional materials
Use the website to send spam, malware, or malicious code
Impersonate another person or organization
Submit information about another person without appropriate authorization
Use the website in a way that violates these Terms or applicable law

We may restrict or block access to the website if we believe someone is misusing it.

Third-Party Links and Services

Kristinbarnhart.com may link to third-party websites, platforms, tools, or services.

These may include:

thebreakthroughcounselor.com
Google Business Profile
Google Reviews
Google Voice
Mailchimp
Wix tools
Social media platforms
Research resources
Professional resources
Other websites or services

Third-party websites and services are controlled by their own owners and providers.

Breakthrough Counseling is not responsible for the content, privacy practices, accessibility, availability, accuracy, security, or policies of third-party websites or services.

When you select a third-party link, you are responsible for reviewing that third party’s terms and privacy policy.

Technology and Delivery Issues

Kristinbarnhart.com and related communications may rely on third-party services, including Wix, Mailchimp, Google Voice, Google, social media platforms, and email providers.

Breakthrough Counseling is not responsible for delays, delivery failures, outages, filtering, spam-folder placement, platform errors, or technical issues involving third-party services.

If you send a message and do not receive a response, do not assume the message was received, reviewed, or clinically evaluated.

Do not use this website or any public-facing technology for urgent needs.

Public Reviews and Testimonials

Kristinbarnhart.com may link to or display public Google Reviews or other public review content.

Breakthrough Counseling does not require clients, former clients, or prospective clients to leave public reviews.

If you are a client or former client, you are never expected to publicly identify yourself as having received services from Breakthrough Counseling.

Breakthrough Counseling does not require testimonials, reviews, endorsements, or public feedback from therapy clients as a condition of receiving services.

If you choose to leave a public review on Google or another platform, please remember that the review may be visible to the public and may reveal information about your relationship with Breakthrough Counseling.

We may request permission before using testimonials, feedback, or reviews in marketing or educational materials if they are not already public.

Social Media Disclaimer

Dr. Kristin Barnhart or Breakthrough Counseling may maintain social media accounts.

Social media content is provided for general educational and informational purposes only.

Following, liking, commenting, sharing, tagging, messaging, or otherwise interacting with Dr. Barnhart or Breakthrough Counseling on social media does not create a psychologist-patient relationship or therapist-client relationship.

Please do not use social media to request therapy, share sensitive personal information, ask for clinical advice, or communicate emergencies.

Breakthrough Counseling does not continuously monitor social media platforms, direct messages, comments, tags, reviews, or other third-party spaces.

Social media platforms are public or semi-public spaces and are governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

Website Analytics and Automated Tools

Website analytics, cookies, email engagement data, and automated tools may be used to understand website performance, email performance, and visitor interaction.

We do not use website analytics, cookies, Mailchimp engagement data, or automated tools to make clinical decisions, determine whether someone may receive therapy, or make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

No Guarantees

Breakthrough Counseling does not guarantee any specific result, outcome, improvement, relationship change, emotional change, therapy availability, consultation availability, or response time based on your use of kristinbarnhart.com.

Educational content may be helpful, but it cannot account for every person’s circumstances, history, diagnosis, relationship dynamics, safety concerns, or clinical needs.

Your use of website content is at your own discretion.

Accuracy, Updates, and AI Summaries

We try to provide helpful and accurate information, but website content may not always be complete, current, or applicable to your situation.

Mental health information, telehealth rules, PsyPact participation, state laws, technology practices, and business policies may change.

We may update, edit, remove, or revise website content at any time without notice.

If website content is summarized by search engines, artificial intelligence tools, social media platforms, browser tools, or other third-party services, those summaries may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Breakthrough Counseling is not responsible for third-party summaries or interpretations of website content.

Accessibility

Breakthrough Counseling wants kristinbarnhart.com to be accessible and usable.

If you have difficulty accessing website content or need an accommodation related to website access, please contact:

kristin@kristinbarnhart.com

We will make reasonable efforts to respond to accessibility-related requests.

Privacy

Your use of kristinbarnhart.com is also governed by the Website Privacy Policy.

The Website Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected through the website, how it may be used, and what choices may be available to you.

These Terms do not replace Breakthrough Counseling’s Notice of Privacy Practices or clinical privacy documents for therapy clients.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Breakthrough Counseling, LLC, Dr. Kristin Barnhart, and any related owners, employees, contractors, service providers, or representatives are not responsible for damages, losses, claims, injuries, or harms arising out of or related to:

Your use of KristinBarnhart.com
Your reliance on website content
Your use of free resources or educational materials
Your submission of information through the website
Third-party websites or services
Website interruptions, errors, or technical problems
Unauthorized access, data loss, or security incidents beyond our reasonable control
Social media interactions
Public reviews or third-party platform activity
Technology failures, delivery failures, or delayed communications
Third-party summaries, AI summaries, or interpretations of website content

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of these limits may not apply to you.

Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to hold harmless Breakthrough Counseling, LLC, Dr. Kristin Barnhart, and any related owners, employees, contractors, service providers, or representatives from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, or expenses, including reasonable attorney fees, arising from:

Your use or misuse of kristinbarnhart.com
Your violation of these Terms
Your violation of another person’s rights
Your submission of false, unauthorized, or inappropriate information
Your misuse of website content or intellectual property
Your use of website content to train artificial intelligence systems or create competing materials without permission
Your violation of applicable law

Governing Law and Venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or related to kristinbarnhart.com are governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, any legal action, claim, or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms, kristinbarnhart.com, or your use of this website must be brought in the state or federal courts serving New London County, Connecticut.

You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection to venue in those courts, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms when our website, business practices, services, technology, or legal obligations change.

The “Last updated” date at the top of this page will identify the most recent version.

Changes become effective when posted on this page unless another effective date is stated.

Your continued use of KristinBarnhart.com after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

Contact Us

Questions about these Terms may be directed to:

Breakthrough Counseling, LLC
Professional website: kristinbarnhart.com
Therapy website: thebreakthroughcounselor.com
Email: kristin@kristinbarnhart.com
Telephone: 860-333-8773
Connecticut, United States