About Kari
Kari Mackneer is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship or family problems. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can use right away. Kari works in English and accepts international clients by appointment.
Her approach blends client-centered care with structured techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions are tailored to each person’s goals and needs, with attention to coping skills for grief, trauma, sleep and eating issues, and career strain.
Background and approach
She also addresses concerns like ADHD, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Kari draws on many years of varied clinical work across settings. She uses straightforward conversation and goal-focused practice rather than clinical jargon.
Clients can expect concrete tools for managing mood, cravings, worry, and strong emotions. She offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That flexibility helps people fit therapy into busy or changing schedules and stay connected between sessions when useful.
Kari describes therapy as a collaborative process. She and the person she is working with shape a plan together, adjust it over time, and track progress toward clearer thinking and more effective coping.
How her approaches work online
Kari uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to support people in making practical changes. Client-centered therapy means she listens closely and adapts to each person's priorities, helping them set goals and plan steps that feel manageable. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, low mood, and problematic patterns.Finding the right approach is a joint process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit those needs, and alter the plan if something is not helping. This collaborative stance lets people move at a pace that feels right while keeping sessions focused on measurable progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share between meetings and track steps over time. These options make it easier to keep consistent contact and use skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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