About Kari
Kari Wright is a licensed master social worker with 20 years of experience helping adults navigate difficult life moments. She greets each person with plain talk and steady support. Kari focuses on practical steps so people can feel and function better day to day.
She works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions, and relationship strain. Her approach is collaborative - she listens first, then suggests clear techniques and next steps.
Background and approach
She explains ideas in everyday language and checks in to make sure they fit the person’s life. Kari commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in her work. She uses these methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts, build better coping skills, and process painful memories.
Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs. Her background includes long experience with loss, chronic stress, caregiving strain, body image concerns, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue.
Kari welcomes questions and keeps the focus on what the person wants to accomplish. When people meet with Kari they can expect straightforward feedback, validation, and options to try between sessions. Therapy is framed as a partnership where both people contribute.
She aims to help people leave sessions with one or two clear actions to try before the next meeting.
How her methods translate to online therapy
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is often used to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns by practicing new ways of thinking and acting in daily life.EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process distressing memories by pairing focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation. It is commonly used for trauma and intense memories that keep coming up.
Motivational Interviewing is a conversational way to help people find their own reasons for change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about making shifts in behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust as progress is seen. This collaborative process helps identify which tools are most helpful over time.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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