About Naira
Naira Karapetyan is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and depression. She also supports clients facing relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep trouble, and major life changes. Her warm tone helps people feel heard and less alone when they first reach out.
Naira keeps sessions straightforward. She encourages people to talk about what matters most. Together they set practical goals and try small, doable steps between sessions.
Background and approach
She aims to make therapy feel like a clear, steady place to work through problems. Her background includes over a decade of clinical work in California. Naira has guided people through trauma and abuse, bipolar and mood concerns, and challenges like codependency and caregiver stress.
She draws on several approaches to match the work to each person’s situation. In sessions she uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and test different responses. She also brings psychodynamic perspective to understand how past patterns affect present choices.
Solution-focused methods help when clients want short-term, goal-oriented work. Naira values cultural context and pays attention to how identity affects struggles such as social anxiety, guilt, and midlife questions. She offers video, phone, chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules.
Starting is simple: prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Practical approaches for online care
She uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors; this approach is often useful for anxiety, sleep issues, and mood concerns. Psychodynamic work is used to look at how past experiences shape current reactions and relationship patterns, which can help when recurring themes keep showing up.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client will review goals, preferences, and progress together and adjust methods as needed. That collaborative process helps identify whether short-term solution-focused work or a deeper psychodynamic path is the best fit.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat can work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or situations that require flexible timing.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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