About Kara
Kara Jakubec is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with five years of clinical counseling experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and the day-to-day problems that make life feel overwhelming. Kara aims to make the first steps feel doable and practical for worried parents and individuals facing big changes.
She trained in human development counseling and shifted into clinical work after a career in administration and consultation within mental health settings.
Background and approach
That background means she understands systems around families and schools and can help people navigate those pressures. Her experience includes work related to substance abuse and recovery as well as adolescent mental health support for parents. Kara uses a person-centered stance that treats each person as the expert on their own life.
She combines this with cognitive-style and reality-focused techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build clearer choices. Sessions focus on identifying where someone feels stuck and mapping small, realistic steps forward. In the room she works collaboratively to set goals, try practical strategies, and track progress.
She also draws on experience running workshops and trainings to teach concrete skills for communication and teamwork. Parents looking for tools to support a child can expect clear, down-to-earth guidance. Kara offers session formats that fit busy schedules, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
She supports people in Texas and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Kara works from a person-centered foundation that treats the client as the expert on their life and priorities. This approach emphasizes listening, validation, and collaborative goal-setting to help people clarify what matters most to them and why change feels important.She also uses cognitive-style techniques that look at thoughts and beliefs that get in the way. These methods help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more workable perspectives, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and motivation struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kara will help clients choose strategies based on their goals, day-to-day needs, and preferences, and she will adjust methods as progress is tracked. The process is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit into tighter schedules or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging work well for short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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