About Karyn
Dr. Karyn Smith is a licensed psychologist in Minnesota with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She uses practical, down-to-earth methods to help clients cope with life changes and everyday pressures.
Her style is warm and interactive and focuses on the person in front of her. She draws on several approaches to tailor care to each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult feelings and move toward what matters to them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for handling strong emotions and improving relationships. Dr.
Smith has long experience with trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing parenting strain, career stress, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, and bipolar-related challenges. Aging and caregiver stress are additional areas she addresses.
Her sessions combine listening with clear tools and short experiments clients can try between meetings. She adapts the pace to the person’s comfort and goals. People often work on building daily routines, improving communication, and managing intense feelings.
Listed credential: MN Psychologist 6271. Sessions are available in English and offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and stress work
Dr. Smith commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then helping people take actions that match their values; it can help when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses simple experiments and practice to change unhelpful patterns commonly seen with anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That conversation guides whether ACT, CBT, or a mix of methods will be tried, and adjustments are made over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can work for brief questions, timely skill reminders, and ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility for busy schedules and varied comfort with online formats.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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