About Kari
Kari Dry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 14 years of experience helping people navigate stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps and steady support to help people handle painful memories, relationship strain, and struggles with substance use. Kari meets people where they are and treats them as the expert on their own life.
Kari emphasizes strengths and small, doable changes. She talks through coping strategies and decision points that fit each person's day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and focused on what matters most right now. She encourages realistic goals and regular check-ins to track progress. Her background includes many years of direct clinical work with people facing trauma, depression, and addiction.
That experience helps her spot patterns that often keep stress and anxiety active. She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Kari also helps people dealing with relationship problems, feelings of isolation, and the strain of caregiving.
She supports folks working through guilt, shame, and forgiveness as part of healing. Her work includes attention to aging and geriatric concerns when they affect well-being. People who choose Kari can expect a collaborative approach.
She listens, offers clear options, and helps tailor a plan that fits each person’s needs and schedule. The emphasis is on steady progress and usable skills for life outside sessions.
How evidence-based approaches fit online therapy
Many clients find brief, skills-focused methods helpful for anxiety and stress. One common approach teaches concrete coping skills for managing worry, grounding exercises, and step-by-step plans to reduce avoidance. These techniques are useful when everyday anxiety interrupts work, sleep, or relationships.Another helpful approach addresses trauma and its effects by gently processing memories and building emotional regulation skills. This method focuses on safety, pacing, and learning ways to reduce reactivity so daily life feels more manageable. It often pairs well with work on addiction or relationship strain, since those areas can be linked to unresolved trauma.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together the client and therapist try methods, make adjustments, and choose tools that fit the person's life and schedule.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging allow for brief updates, written reflections, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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