About Karen
Karen Bradt is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety and stress. She works in Florida and speaks English. Her approach blends straightforward talk with practical steps you can try between sessions.
She begins by listening to what matters most to you and what you want to change. Then she explains how stress and trauma can shape thoughts and reactions. Sessions focus on small, doable actions to reduce panic, ease sleep problems, and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Karen uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect current responses. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, plus mindfulness skills and some hypnotherapy tools when appropriate.
Practical plans are central to her work. Karen asks clients to try small experiments - brief exposure exercises, activity changes, or new ways to respond to triggers - and then review what helped. She pays attention to physical health and movement as part of emotional recovery.
Her background includes a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work from the University of Central Florida, plus a certificate in addictions. She combines clinical knowledge with real-world strategies so people can see step-by-step progress toward calmer days.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current reactions. It helps people understand patterns of closeness, fear, and avoidance so they can try new ways of relating.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and depression going. It includes practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and acting.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. These skills can help with intense reactions, anger, and relationship struggles.
Karen approaches treatment collaboratively; she will help you choose which methods to try based on your needs and goals. Together you can try short experiments and swap approaches if something does not fit.
Online sessions offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls let you work in real time and practice skills with guidance. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while trying specific techniques that match your goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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