About Karen
Karen Cino is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related concerns. She speaks plainly and offers steady support while people sort through difficult feelings. Karen aims to make the first steps feel doable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She uses a straightforward, listening-first approach so clients feel heard. Sessions focus on understanding what matters most to the person sitting across from her.
Background and approach
Karen encourages small, realistic changes that build confidence over time. Her work emphasizes practical tools and emotional understanding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused ideas guide conversations about core feelings and connection. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the client's goals and pace at the center of each session. Over seven years of practice in Florida have shaped how she supports people with stress, depression, addictions, career setbacks, and relationship concerns.
She also addresses issues such as grief, trauma and LGBT-related stress when these come up in a person's story. Karen draws on this range to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. People who choose to work with her will find a calm, nonjudgmental presence and concrete steps to try between meetings.
The work is collaborative - goals are set together and adjusted as things change. Her style is warm, practical, and focused on building skills that help in everyday life.
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy means Karen centers each session on what the person brings. She listens without judgment and follows the client’s pace to set goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and make sense of strong emotions so they can respond differently in relationships and personal situations.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Karen will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan as progress happens or needs shift.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins possible and fit into busy schedules. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel constraints while keeping the same therapeutic focus and goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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