About Krissel
Krissel Montano is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She works with concerns like compassion fatigue, grief, anger, career strain, and coping with life changes. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and she practices from Texas.
She uses clear, practical steps to help people move forward. That can mean learning ways to change unhelpful thoughts, trying short mindfulness practices, or setting small goals to build momentum.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what is happening now and on skills that can be used between sessions. Krissel draws from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to match methods to each person. She emphasizes collaboration and respects individual pace when addressing issues like attachment, family of origin concerns, caregiver stress, or chronic illness.
With three years of clinical experience as an LCSW, Krissel blends practical tools with an empathic manner. She helps people unpack feelings of guilt, shame, emptiness, and isolation while teaching ways to cope with impulsivity and communication problems. People often come for help after big life changes, crises, or when long-standing patterns cause pain.
Krissel works to build workable plans for relief, better day-to-day functioning, and clearer decision making. The approach is steady, goal-oriented, and grounded in real-life steps.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Krissel uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps and skills to practice between sessions. She also integrates Mindfulness Therapy, which uses short attention and breathing exercises to help reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness can be helpful for people dealing with racing thoughts, compassion fatigue, or emotional overwhelm. Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. That way the work stays relevant and practical as needs change. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls can help when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging is helpful for ongoing, flexible support. These options help people access therapy across different locations and routines.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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