About Kara
Kara Anderson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 29 years of clinical experience. She practices online from Florida and combines a warm, human-centered style with practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. Kara began her counseling work in 1994 as a residential therapist in a psychiatric hospital.
She later moved into outpatient care, clinical supervision, and program leadership at a substance abuse treatment agency.
Background and approach
From 2001 to 2014 she practiced in Ohio as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and served in supervisory and administrative roles before returning to Florida to focus on online practice. Her approach is rooted in Client-Centered Therapy, with added structure from cognitive and behavioral methods when helpful.
Sessions tend to be interactive and compassionate, and she may suggest exercises or tasks between sessions to keep progress moving. She adapts pace and techniques to each person's needs while emphasizing a strong therapeutic relationship. Kara also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices to help people regulate intense emotions and build coping skills.
Motivational Interviewing is used when change feels difficult or when someone is weighing different options in life, work, or recovery. She has worked across a wide range of concerns including trauma, addiction, parenting and family conflict, body image, chronic illness, and career questions. Her background includes graduate study in mental health counseling and continuing education in career counseling and assessment.
Kara focuses on practical steps people can use to feel more balanced and capable.
Combining client-centered care with practical online tools
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a strong relationship so people feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs support processing emotions, making life decisions, or rebuilding after loss. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and gives simple strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and goal-focused work. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and relationship skills to manage intense feelings and reduce reactive behavior.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that match those needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face when a longer session or deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions are handy when a lower bandwidth option or a quick check-in fits better. Live chat and text-based messaging make short, focused exchanges possible between sessions for accountability, updates, or short exercises. These options allow therapy to fit into work breaks, travel, caregiving schedules, and other daily demands while keeping treatment consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Ohio
- Languages
- English