About Patricia
Patricia Karl is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with 16 years of experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, addictions, grief, and challenges in intimacy and relationships. Her style is direct, warm, and collaborative.
She helps people name patterns and take practical steps forward. Her approach blends client-centered listening with focused techniques that target thoughts, emotions, and body responses. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
Background and approach
She also incorporates EMDR when trauma memories keep people stuck. Patricia pays attention to how past attachments shape current relationships. She helps clients understand where patterns come from and how to try new ways of relating.
Sessions often focus on small, doable changes that build confidence and steady emotion. Many clients bring complex, overlapping concerns such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, codependency, or mixed mood symptoms. Patricia works step by step when issues feel overwhelming, helping people prioritize what to address first and tracking progress along the way.
Practical tools are central to her work. Clients might practice emotion regulation skills, experiment with communication strategies, or use focused processing for traumatic memories. The goal is to leave sessions with something useful to try between meetings.
Approaches that guide online work
Patricia commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online practice. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment, helping people clarify what matters to them and move at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, for people whose traumatic memories keep them stuck. EMDR involves focused processing of distressing memories so they feel less overwhelming and interfere less with daily life. The therapist and client discuss whether this approach fits the client’s history and goals before using it.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction while phone calls use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, step-by-step skills practice, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep work moving between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English