About Michael
Michael Muniz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people navigate anxiety, trauma, depression, relationship strain, and life changes. He brings nearly two decades of experience and a calm, direct approach to sessions. Michael focuses on clear goals and practical steps to make life feel more manageable.
He has worked in psychiatric hospitals, independent practice, and corporate healthcare settings across Texas. That range of experience gives him familiarity with both crisis work and longer-term concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on skills people can use between meetings. Michael draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. He combines that with client-centered listening to make sure each person feels heard.
Motivational interviewing and mindfulness tools are also used when someone is trying to make a change or reduce stress. People often come for help with stress, sleep problems, grief, addiction, or trouble coping after a big life event. He also has experience with mood concerns such as bipolar symptoms, and with parenting and family-related stress.
Michael talks through options and helps set manageable steps forward. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video, phone, chat, or text formats. He practices in Texas as an LPC and brings 19 years of professional experience to his work.
If someone wants to start, the typical process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and responding without judgment; it helps when someone needs a steady, empathic listener and clear feedback. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical tools to change thinking and behaviors that feed anxiety or low mood, and it works well for stress, sleep issues, and depression.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past attempts, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match those priorities. Adjustments are made over time so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and getting reminders about skills between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on practical change and steady support.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English