Kristen Wojtuniak

Kristen Wojtuniak is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with eight years of professional experience. She works with adolescents and adults who struggle with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. Kristen aims to bring warmth, compassion, and a bit of humor to sessions so people feel understood and supported.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help reduce stress and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Kristen focuses on practical skills that let people take an active role in their care and build healthier coping habits. She also encourages positive mantras and small daily changes that add up over time.

Her approach emphasizes self-compassion, mindfulness, and learning to tolerate uncertainty and uncomfortable feelings. Clients work on noticing negative core beliefs and practicing ways to challenge them. The goal is clearer boundaries, more honest self-expression, and fewer behaviors driven by shame and guilt.

Kristen has experience with concerns that include eating and body image issues, obsessive thoughts, grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, social anxiety, and isolation and loneliness. She aims to highlight strengths clients may overlook and to support gradual, sustainable change.

Kristen structures therapy as a collaborative process of exploring and experimenting. She aims to help people build awareness, try new strategies, and find what works for their daily life and goals.

How therapeutic techniques translate to online care

Kristen emphasizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a central method. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them in day-to-day life. It helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and problems like negative self-talk and body image concerns.

She also incorporates mindfulness and practices that build self-compassion. Mindfulness work involves noticing thoughts and bodily sensations without judgment, which can reduce reactivity. Self-compassion exercises teach gentler ways to relate to struggles and to tolerate difficult feelings.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kristen works collaboratively to match techniques to the client's goals and comfort level. Together they try strategies, track what helps, and adjust the plan over time.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make scheduling easier for people who work from home, have tight lunch breaks, or need to fit sessions into caregiving routines. It can also allow shorter check-ins when that's helpful, and reduce travel time so therapy fits more easily into a busy week.