About Crystal
Crystal Dungan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with ten years of experience. She earned a master’s degree in community counseling from Webster University and began her career in a psychiatric hospital. That early work exposed her to many settings and to people with a wide range of needs.
She now focuses on shorter-term, solution-oriented counseling and also offers work with couples and individuals. Her style is relaxed and conversational.
Background and approach
She aims to make people feel comfortable, like they are talking with a thoughtful friend, while keeping clear professional boundaries. Sessions are practical and tailored to each person’s situation. Crystal uses several approaches to guide sessions, including client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship work.
She helps people name patterns, try small changes, and build clearer communication. Typical concerns she addresses include anxiety, stress, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, codependency, addictions, and career questions. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, blended family challenges, attachment concerns, and first responder or veteran-related issues.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Crystal aims to match the pace and focus to each person’s goals, whether that means short-term problem solving or a longer process of growth and change.
How therapy approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. The therapist reflects what is said, helps people clarify their goals, and supports personal insight and choice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical behavior changes to feel better. The Gottman Method provides tools for improving communication and conflict management in relationships, such as specific exercises to increase understanding and rebuild trust.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Crystal will talk with each person about their needs and goals and then suggest approaches to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what the person prefers, so therapy stays collaborative and focused.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use facial cues and longer conversation, phone can work when bandwidth or cameras are limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English