About Karin
Karin Gardner is a licensed social worker who focuses on practical help for stress and anxiety. She combines plain talk with steady support so people can take small steps toward feeling better. Karin holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and works from New York.
She believes people already have strengths to build on. In sessions she helps clients notice what matters, set realistic goals, and try new coping skills. Conversations are calm and direct, aimed at reducing worry and improving daily routines.
Background and approach
Karin uses several approaches to match each person’s needs. She pulls from acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, attachment-focused perspectives, and client-centered listening. That mix helps with things like grief, relationship strain, sleep problems, and life changes.
Her background includes seven years of clinical experience across community and health-related settings. That work brought experience with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and family conflict. She also supports people facing trauma, anger, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
In practical terms sessions may include skill practice, problem-solving, and exploring how past experiences affect current relationships. Karin aims to teach techniques that fit into everyday life. She partners with each person to track progress and adjust the plan as needed.
How Karin’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current bonds and helps someone create healthier ways of connecting with others.Choosing an approach is part of the work together. Karin collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is helping and what feels workable in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so conversations can happen in ways that match schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face discussion and skill demonstrations. Phone calls can be used when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins, emotional support between sessions, or people who prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches above to address anxiety, relationships, grief, and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York, Vermont
- Languages
- English
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