About Muang
Muang Kistler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who offers supportive online care for adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, mood concerns, and relationship patterns. She communicates plainly and helps people make practical changes that fit daily life. Her approach is collaborative and grounded in real-world problem solving.
Muang draws on three years of remote therapy experience and a prior nine years as a medical social worker in hospitals. That background included emergency departments, inpatient psychiatry, palliative care, outpatient primary care, dialysis settings, and prison work.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped a calm, steady way of responding to crises and complex medical or end-of-life situations. She commonly uses an attachment perspective to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build values-based action.
Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and steady progress. Clients often come for help with anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, parenting stress, chronic illness, or trauma. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, codependency, caregiver strain, workplace stress, and women’s issues.
The work can cover symptom relief and longer-term personal growth. Muang emphasizes open communication and teamwork. She helps set goals together and revises plans as needs change.
Her aim is to leave people better able to manage feelings, make choices, and move forward.
Approaches to healing online and how they help
Muang commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and helps people build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Muang treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help the client test methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they set goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan as needed so the approach fits the person over time.
Online therapy can make sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and use visual tools. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick check-ins, brief skill practice, and flexible contact between scheduled sessions. These options let adults in California access licensed professionals in ways that suit their schedule and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English