About Krissel
Krissel Montano is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship strain. She also supports those managing grief, compassion fatigue, anger, career changes, and the day-to-day impact of bipolar mood shifts. Her sessions are straightforward and focused.
Krissel listens first, then helps people set small, realistic goals. She uses practical tools to manage mood, improve communication, and reduce overwhelm. Krissel draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps are used to clarify values and move toward concrete change. She aims for a calm, respectful tone in sessions and keeps things simple for people who are worried or pressed for time. Conversations often include short skill-building exercises and clear plans to try between meetings.
Krissel works in English and Spanish and practices in Texas as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker. She has three years of professional experience and combines clinical methods with down-to-earth problem solving. People who want flexible options can meet by video, phone, live chat, or messaging.
Krissel supports international clients and guides each person toward approaches that fit their goals and daily life.
How Krissel’s Approaches Work Online
Krissel uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical changes to feelings and behaviors. CBT techniques can help with anxiety, low mood, and stress by breaking problems into manageable steps.She also incorporates mindfulness practices to teach simple attention and breathing skills that reduce reactivity and increase calm. Mindfulness work is often brief and can be practiced between sessions to support emotion regulation.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Krissel talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, and together they decide which techniques to try first and how to adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video allows face-to-face interaction for teaching skills, phone can be a quieter option with lower bandwidth needs, chat works well for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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