About Kira
Kira Karabanovs, LISW, focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles. She talks plainly about what is worrying you and helps you find practical steps to feel steadier. Her approach emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and straightforward support.
With eight years of experience working in Ohio, she tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. Sessions center on clear goals and small, manageable changes rather than long lectures. She aims to help people build confidence, handle grief, and boost motivation in everyday life.
Background and approach
Kira uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change. For those affected by past harm, trauma-focused methods guide gradual, focused work on upsetting memories and reactions.
Her style is collaborative and paced to what feels doable. She explains options, checks in about progress, and adjusts the plan when needed. People who prefer structure will get clear strategies, while those wanting space to explore emotions will have that too.
Conversations cover common concerns like coping with life transitions, self-esteem, parenting stress, addiction, career pressures, and grief. Kira supports people through both immediate symptoms and longer-term patterns that keep problems repeating. She respects each person’s identity and background while helping them move toward practical, achievable steps.
Approaches that guide online sessions
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is useful for worry, panic, and persistent negative thinking.Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps people clarify what matters to them and strengthen their own motivation to change. It is often used when someone feels stuck or unsure about making a change such as addressing substance use or improving self-care.
Trauma-focused therapy involves careful, step-by-step work on memories and reactions linked to past harm, aiming to reduce intense emotional reactions and improve daily functioning. This approach is used when trauma symptoms interfere with relationships, sleep, or daily tasks.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then try methods that fit. Progress is checked regularly and plans are adjusted in partnership with the client.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls are closest to an in-person meeting, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break, live chat lets people type thoughts in the moment, and text messaging supports brief check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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