Krissel Montano
Focused, practical support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Krissel
Krissel Montano is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and issues with self-esteem. She supports those dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, anger, and career pressures. Krissel also addresses relationship and family concerns and helps people cope with major life changes and bipolar mood challenges.
Krissel uses straightforward, evidence-based tools in sessions so clients can see practical progress. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change patterns of thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce reactivity and build moment-to-moment calm. Her work also includes motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and solution-focused methods to set clear, achievable goals. Krissel pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues when those come up.
She also supports people managing chronic illness, co-morbid conditions, and the fallout from traumatic events. Krissel speaks English and Spanish and is licensed in Texas as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - TX LCSW 55182. She has three years of professional experience.
Sessions are offered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Her approach is plain spoken and practical. Sessions focus on small, useful changes that add up over time.
The goal is to help people build coping skills, improve relationships, and move forward after hard times.
How specific approaches fit into online therapy
Krissel commonly draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy when working online. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral changes to see if feelings shift, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and make emotions easier to notice and manage.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses goals, current struggles, and preferences, then suggests which methods might suit those needs. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan together as progress is tracked and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options allow scheduling flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or health limitations. Sessions can focus on skill practice, homework between meetings, or shorter check-ins by chat or text when that works better for daily life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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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
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