About Karen
Karen Lakritz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist. She has helped people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and substance use tied to loneliness. Karen also has experience supporting people living with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
She brings a direct, compassionate manner to sessions and keeps things practical and straightforward. She describes her style as warm and supportive while maintaining clear expectations and accountability.
Background and approach
Karen understands challenges faced by people who are non-neurotypical, and she speaks from both professional and personal perspective about speech and learning differences. That lived experience informs how she adapts conversations and pace in session. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered methods to address unhelpful thoughts, behaviors, and relationship patterns.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-focused thinking when those fit a person's needs. Sessions are conversational and focused on small, doable steps toward goals. Karen can talk through practical problems such as sleep, eating concerns, career stress, caregiver strain, and parenting challenges.
She also helps people facing identity and intimacy issues, addictions, and major life transitions. Her aim is to help clients find strategies that work in daily life. Karen has spent recent years spending part of the year living in Canada and is familiar with navigating health and housing systems there.
She offers a collaborative process and asks clients to try clear actions between sessions so progress can be tracked and adjusted.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without being ruled by them and then pick meaningful actions aligned with values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and problems that feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life changes to reduce symptoms and improve routines. It often helps with anxiety, sleep, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people develop different ways of relating and connecting when old patterns cause pain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She blends techniques from different approaches as needed and checks in regularly to see what is working and what needs to change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, coaching-style guidance, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options let people fit care around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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