Kristine Mills, LPCC
Therapist in New Mexico
Kristine Mills, LPCC, focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
- Licensed inNew Mexico
- LicenseCCMH0212651
- NPI 1750891347
- Experience8+ years
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Kristine
Kristine Mills, LPCC, focuses on helping people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She speaks plainly and listens for what matters most to each person. Her approach centers on building clearer connections to feelings, values, and everyday choices.
Kristine has eight years of clinical experience and is licensed as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, in New Mexico. She draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including attachment-based ideas, acceptance and commitment methods, and cognitive behavioral strategies.
Background and approach
These tools are used to help people manage strong emotions, rebuild trust in relationships, and make practical changes day to day. In sessions she treats trauma, depression, and LGBTQ-related issues with attention to safety and pacing. She also supports people working through addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, and career or parenting stress.
Kristine pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions and helps clients notice patterns they want to change. Her style is collaborative and strengths-focused. She helps clients name goals, try small experiments between sessions, and practice skills that fit real life.
Therapy conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented while still allowing space for deeper emotional work. Kristine’s work includes helping people with attachment concerns, abandonment wounds, co-dependency, and family of origin issues. She offers practical coping strategies alongside reflective work to support longer-term change.
Credentials
- LPCC (New Mexico)
- License CCMH0212651 · expires September 2027
- NPI
- 1750891347 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kristine lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Kristine names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How attachment work and ACT can fit online
Attachment-based ideas focus on how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to identify these patterns and to practice new ways of relating to others and to oneself. This approach can help with abandonment concerns, attachment wounds, and repeating relationship patterns.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps that match those values. It combines mindfulness-style noticing with practical exercises aimed at shifting behavior even when strong emotions are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions, and introduces simple experiments to test and change unhelpful patterns.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan over time. That collaborative process helps people try ideas at a pace that feels manageable.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text messaging for brief check-ins or skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
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Frequently asked
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and related concerns such as body image, parenting strain, and career stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She combines attachment-informed listening with practical exercises from ACT and CBT to help clients meet goals and try changes between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of professional experience supporting people through emotional and relationship challenges.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, and practices in New Mexico.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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