About Kristen
Kristen Wojtuniak is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New York with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. Kristen brings warmth, compassion, and a bit of humor to sessions to make hard conversations feel more manageable.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helping people notice and change unhelpful thoughts. That work is aimed at reducing stress and building clearer ways to cope.
Background and approach
Kristen also teaches short practices in mindfulness and self-compassion to help clients tolerate uncomfortable feelings and body sensations. In sessions she helps people spot negative core beliefs and test them with small experiments. Clients learn to set boundaries, name wants and needs, and notice how shame or guilt can shape behavior.
Kristen emphasizes practical steps people can try between meetings to make steady progress. Her background includes working with adolescents and adults on issues like obsessive-compulsive symptoms, body image concerns, eating-related struggles, chronic illness, grief, and communication problems. She pays attention to the small changes that add up and often uses positive mantras to support motivation.
Kristen tailors scheduling to fit people who are at home during the day, college students, or those who can use a lunch break. She welcomes international clients and runs sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Practical approaches for online anxiety care
Kristen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change negative thought patterns that fuel anxiety and stress. CBT breaks problems into small, testable steps so people can try new responses and notice what works. She also uses mindfulness and self-compassion practices to help clients sit with uncomfortable feelings and bodily sensations without reacting immediately; these skills can reduce avoidance and build tolerance.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Kristen discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adjusts techniques as therapy progresses. She encourages experimentation with short exercises between sessions so methods are tailored over time to each person’s needs.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving practical options for different days and needs. Video lets for face-to-face interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These formats make scheduling easier for people who are at home during the day, college students, or those who need a break during work hours.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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