About Kristin
Kristin Muniz is a licensed clinical social worker in New Mexico who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, anger, and life transitions. She brings six years of clinical experience to conversations about coping, relapse prevention, and emotional regulation. Kristin focuses on creating a calm space where people can say what they are feeling and thinking without fear of judgment.
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
Background and approach
Kristin supports practical skills for day-to-day coping and works with each person to set realistic goals. She combines talking, grounding, and attention to the body to help reduce overwhelm. Her approach blends somatic ideas with evidence-based therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
That mix lets her address patterns in thoughts, emotions, and behaviors while also noticing how stress shows up in the body. Sessions often include exercises to build awareness and practice new responses. Kristin uses a warm, nonjudgmental style that centers the person’s experience.
She listens for what matters most to each client and adapts tools to fit their life. People who feel stuck by guilt, shame, impulsivity, or relationship trouble often find concrete steps to move forward. She is also familiar with concerns related to substance use, first responder stress, divorce and separation, and feelings of isolation.
Kristin works in English and holds the NM LCSW license (SWB-2023-0021).
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Somatic-informed work focuses on how stress and emotions show up in the body. It uses simple attention to breath, posture, and sensation to help people notice and change physical patterns that keep them stuck. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma responses, and anger that feels locked in the body.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values and taking small actions that matter, which can be helpful for addiction, low motivation, and life transitions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different tools, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist work together to choose techniques that fit daily life and long-term aims.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to use therapy from home. The different formats also allow for short check-ins, practice between sessions, and flexible ways to try body-focused and talk-based techniques.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English