About Kristen
Kristen Wojtuniak is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with eight years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, ADHD, and major life changes. Her approach is direct and warm, with a straightforward emphasis on practical skills and daily habits.
Kristen brings compassion and a bit of humor to sessions. She aims to help people notice small shifts that add up over time.
Background and approach
Sessions include learning ways to handle stress, improve self-esteem, and cope with grief or trauma. She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change negative thought patterns. Kristen also supports work on mindfulness and self-compassion so people can stay present with difficult feelings and bodily sensations.
These skills are taught in short, usable steps a person can practice between meetings. Kristen helps people set boundaries, speak up for their needs, and reduce the hold of shame and guilt on everyday choices. She works on communication strategies and practical coping tools for chronic illness, body image concerns, and obsessive or compulsive behaviors.
Her schedule is shaped for people who work from home, stay-at-home parents, and students who need flexible appointment times. Kristen encourages a collaborative process where goals are clear and progress is tracked with simple, realistic steps.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Kristen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and shift negative thoughts that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on concrete steps and short exercises that can immediately change how someone reacts to stress.She also teaches mindfulness and self-compassion practices that help reduce reactivity to uncomfortable feelings and bodily sensations. These practices are brief and can be used between sessions to build tolerance for uncertainty and emotional discomfort.
Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which techniques fit the person's goals, needs, and daily life. That collaborative process means methods are adjusted as progress is made and new goals appear.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for teaching skills and doing interactive exercises. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when less bandwidth is available. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to schedule around school, work, or caregiving duties while keeping therapeutic momentum.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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