About Crystal
Crystal Mullins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Tennessee with 20 years of experience. She has helped many people navigate major life changes, relationship struggles, grief, and stress. Her style is practical and goal-focused while staying grounded in each person’s unique story.
She uses Client-Centered methods to listen and respond to what matters most to the person in front of her. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change patterns that keep problems going.
How Crystal works
Solution-Focused Therapy helps keep sessions forward-looking and focused on concrete steps. Sessions address a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, bipolar mood issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and anger. Crystal also works with parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, and workplace or career stress.
Additional focus areas include caregiving stress, blended family challenges, body image, and end-of-life and hospice concerns. Her approach blends practical tools with compassionate listening. She helps people identify realistic goals and then breaks those goals into manageable steps.
Meetings move at a pace set by the person seeking help, with attention to coping skills and problem-solving. Crystal welcomes conversations about meaning, life purpose, and difficult transitions. She supports people facing isolation or compassion fatigue, and those coping with family of origin issues, divorce, infidelity, or control and codependency patterns.
Her work is aimed at real change through steady, collaborative effort.
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What Crystal works with
The areas below are the ones Crystal selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and build self-directed solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems active and teaches practical tools to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, specific steps toward a clearer goal and can be useful when someone wants quick, actionable change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss symptoms, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit the person’s needs. That process is collaborative, with regular check-ins to adjust techniques and focus as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options give flexibility to fit sessions into workdays, caregiving schedules, or busy lives.
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