Celita Hastie, LISW-CP

Celita Hastie is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) based in South Carolina with 18 years of experience as a clinical social worker. Over the course of her career she has worked primarily with teenagers through adults in individual and small group settings, helping people navigate everyday challenges and more complex difficulties such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and low self-esteem. Her work also addresses related areas including body image, communication problems, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and issues affecting women.

Hastie aims to create an open, nonjudgmental environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared while collaborators focus on achievable goals. She brings a generally laid-back presence combined with a results-oriented approach; training in Motivational Interviewing and Solutions-Focused Therapy guides her toward practical action plans and task-focused sessions. At the same time she recognizes that sometimes the most helpful sessions simply provide space to express and process emotions that have been held in.

Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Hastie explores how life experiences, emotions, and behaviors are connected and works with clients to identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns that affect daily living. She acknowledges that reaching out for help requires courage and vulnerability, and she meets people where they are to support them in finding clearer, more manageable ways forward.