Kristine Mills
Compassionate counselor for practical change
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristine
Kristine Mills is a licensed professional counselor (LPCC) based in New Mexico. She has eight years of clinical experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, and LGBT-related issues. She speaks English and uses practical, compassionate guidance to help clients take the first steps toward change.
Kristine believes each person knows their story best. She works collaboratively, listening first and then offering tools that match a person’s goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear strategies and skills that can be used between meetings. Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods. Kristine may use cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment methods to clarify values and action, and attachment-informed ideas to improve important relationships.
She adapts methods to fit what each person needs. Kristine has supported people through grief, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, sleep and eating issues, and career stress. She also addresses co-occurring problems such as substance use, codependency, and control issues.
Sessions aim to build practical coping skills and clearer communication. Clients can expect a direct but warm style. Kristine emphasizes small, achievable steps and regular review of progress.
She encourages people to use their strengths while learning new ways to manage difficult moments.
Online approaches that connect to daily life
Kristine frequently draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns and habits with practical exercises and homework. She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to clarify what matters most to a person and to build actions that match those values. Attachment-based ideas may be used to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and to strengthen emotional bonds.Choosing a therapeutic approach is something Kristine does together with each client. She listens to concerns and goals, then suggests techniques that fit those needs. Over a few sessions she checks in and adjusts the plan so the work stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, caregiving, and busy days. Video lets people work face to face from home, while phone and messaging can be good for short check-ins, practicing skills, or when travel is difficult. The variety of formats supports continuity of care and flexibility for different needs.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kristine
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- Stop at any point