About Michael
Michael Muniz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. He brings 19 years of experience in mental health settings and aims to listen first and guide each person through hard moments. He has worked in psychiatric hospitals, independent practice, and corporate healthcare across Texas.
That range has exposed him to many situations, including trauma, addictions, and persistent mood challenges. He draws on that background to tailor straightforward, practical care.
Background and approach
In sessions he uses approaches rooted in cognitive behavioral ideas and client-centered conversation. That means he helps people spot unhelpful thinking, try small changes, and shape goals that feel meaningful. He also employs emotion-focused and mindfulness methods when those fit a person's needs.
Michael often uses motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change, and narrative techniques to reframe difficult stories. He aims to make therapy collaborative and down-to-earth so progress feels doable rather than overwhelming. People can expect clear explanations of options and a focus on small, actionable steps.
He works with a wide range of concerns including relationships, grief, sleeping problems, parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and take place online in a variety of formats.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. Online sessions using this approach start with the person's priorities and pace the work around what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions the therapist and client use simple exercises and homework to practice new skills between appointments, which can reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and process strong feelings that get in the way of relationships and coping. Even over video or phone, EFT techniques can guide emotional awareness and healthier interaction patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. That means checking in frequently and adjusting strategies as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or lower bandwidth situations, and live chat or text messaging allow quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity and practice skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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