Muang Kistler, LCSW

Muang Kistler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in California with three years of post-licensure experience as a remote therapist. She focuses on common and urgent concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and bipolar mood concerns. Muang works with adults who are navigating life changes, medical diagnoses, loss, or patterns rooted in family systems and attachment.

Before providing remote therapy, Muang spent nine years as a medical social worker in hospitals, including emergency departments, inpatient psychiatric care, acute adult medicine, and palliative care. She has also worked in outpatient primary care, at a dialysis center, and in a correctional setting. That clinical background informs a practical approach to problems that often involve health, caregiving, and high-stress environments.

Her therapeutic style comes from an attachment perspective while drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. In sessions she helps people notice thoughts and patterns, try manageable behavioral changes, and clarify values that guide decisions. The work is focused on skills that people can use between meetings.

Muang commonly addresses issues such as abandonment and attachment wounds, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, codependency, communication and control issues, workplace stress, and grief or hospice-related concerns. She also supports people coping with first responder issues, domestic violence aftermath, guilt and shame, and mood disorders.

She emphasizes clear, honest communication and treats therapy as a collaborative process. Goals are set together and adjusted as needed so plans stay relevant to day-to-day life and realistic steps for change.

How her approaches translate to online sessions