About Kara
Kara Anderson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 29 years of practice. She works from Florida and offers therapy adapted to each person’s needs. Her style is warm, direct when needed, and focused on building a strong therapeutic relationship.
She began her career in 1994 as a residential therapist in a psychiatric hospital and later worked in outpatient care, substance abuse treatment, and program leadership.
Background and approach
Over time she has held roles as clinical supervisor and program director, and has run programs in both Florida and Ohio. She moved back to Florida in 2014 and has been offering online services since then. Kara describes her approach as humanistic with an emphasis on genuineness, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.
She also uses structured techniques and sometimes assigns practical homework to keep progress moving between sessions. She tailors pace and methods to each person and checks in to adjust the plan as needs change. Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, trauma and grief.
She also helps with relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, self-esteem, career concerns, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses listed include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and life purpose. Educationally she holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Miami and a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Nova Southeastern University.
She has pursued postgraduate coursework and ongoing professional development in career counseling and the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Over nearly three decades Kara has worked in residential, outpatient, and community settings and with a wide range of concerns. Her experience includes individual and group formats and spans simple to complex co-occurring issues.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting, respectful relationship and helps people feel heard while they identify goals and make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected and uses specific exercises to reduce worry, manage anxiety, and shift unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal interactions, which can be helpful for intense emotions and relationship struggles.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, suggest methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you make progress. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to use and how quickly to move forward.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets you send notes or updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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