About Cara
Cara Kalakewich is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of experience based in Pennsylvania. She helps people who are coping with anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, addiction, and other life challenges. Cara focuses on building a trusting space where thoughts and feelings can be voiced without judgment.
She uses a collaborative, nurturing style. Sessions aim to validate a person’s experience while also looking for practical shifts that reduce distress.
Background and approach
Cara pays attention to the different parts of life that affect wellbeing - family, faith, work, and personal values. When working on relationship or intimacy concerns she applies tools that help improve communication and connection. For stress, anxiety, or mood difficulties she blends practical skills with attention to emotional patterns.
She also supports people facing grief, parenting stress, body image concerns, and recovery from abuse. Cara draws on Client-Centered methods to follow each person’s lead and build strength. She pairs that with techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach concrete coping skills.
The Gottman Method and Emotionally-Focused Therapy inform her work with attachment and communication in close relationships. People who choose Cara can expect direct, compassionate care aimed at realistic change. She works with each client to set goals and track progress.
The tone is supportive, honest, and focused on practical steps toward feeling more stable and connected.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental dialogue that helps people name what matters and build confidence. This approach is useful for anxiety, relationship worries, and life transitions because it follows the client’s priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT works well for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and mood concerns by providing exercises and step-by-step techniques you can practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. It can help when strong emotions, self-sabotage, or relationship conflicts are getting in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. From there they tailor techniques and check in as work progresses so the plan can change if needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent even with busy days or changing routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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