About Muang
Muang Kistler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who aims to help adults manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and related struggles. She offers straightforward support and practical tools for people trying to feel steadier in day-to-day life. Muang draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current patterns.
She blends that perspective with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and build values-based action.
How Muang works
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps toward them. Her clinical background includes several years in hospital-based medical social work across emergency departments, inpatient psychiatric care, and palliative settings. She also has experience in outpatient care, dialysis support, and prison social work, which informs a pragmatic, trauma-aware approach.
In therapy Muang works with adults facing life transitions, chronic illness, grief, or challenges from past relationships. She helps people learn coping skills, reduce symptoms of anxiety or depression, and strengthen self-worth. The emphasis is on collaboration and tailoring strategies to what fits each person’s life.
Muang prefers honest, clear communication and frames the work as a partnership. Together with each client she sets achievable goals and revises them as needed. Her aim is to leave people feeling more capable of handling emotional, practical, and relationship-related challenges.
Muang lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Muang works with
The areas below are the ones Muang selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Muang’s approaches work in online therapy
Muang uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them block action toward valued goals. ACT is useful for worries, depression, and situations where avoidance gets in the way of living the life someone wants.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and expectations. That work helps when attachment issues, abandonment worries, or communication patterns cause repeated conflict or distress.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels helpful. Together they pick techniques and adjust the plan as insights and circumstances change.
Online sessions support this work through flexible formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, while phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, written reflection, and ongoing touchpoints between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy days and health-related limitations.
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