About Karie
Karie Bailey is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at making it easier to talk about what’s most worrying you.
Clients come for help with relationship tension, family and parenting struggles, depression, and issues around self-esteem and career change. She also works with people facing abandonment, adoption or foster care histories, blended family concerns, caregiving stress, and the emotional impact of illness or loss.
Background and approach
Sessions cover both immediate coping strategies and longer-term goals. Karie uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, motivational interviewing to build commitment to change, and solution-focused methods to set small achievable steps. Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, with time spent on what will make a real difference between sessions.
She creates an open environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. That safe space is used to practice new ways of communicating and to try different coping tools. Progress is measured in small wins and clearer decisions.
Based in Oklahoma, Karie brings decades of hands-on experience to each session. She supports people who are ready to take a first step toward feeling better, offering guidance and honest feedback along the way.
Approaches for online care and practical change
Karie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns that increase anxiety and stress. CBT sessions often focus on specific problems, testing new behaviors between meetings and tracking what helps.She also applies motivational interviewing to build a person's own reasons for change. This approach listens for strengths and ambivalence, helping people move from thinking about change to actually trying small steps.
Finding the right method is a shared process. Karie works together with each person to pick approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what proves most useful.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face when they want that connection, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or scheduling is limited. Live chat and text are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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