About Patricia
Patricia Karl is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 16 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, and major life changes. Her manner is direct, kind, and practical when working with adults who feel stuck or overwhelmed.
Patricia blends talk work with focused techniques to move past patterns that no longer serve a person. She listens for attachment wounds and repeated behaviors, then helps clients name what keeps those cycles going.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify what matters and to produce small, doable changes. Her background includes long-term counseling with adults dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, and emotional dysregulation. She also supports people struggling with chronic illness, caregiver stress, codependency, or the fallout of separation and divorce.
Those issues often come together, and she tracks how they affect daily functioning. Patricia uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws from client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools to address thinking and behavior, solution-focused steps for immediate problems, and psychodynamic ideas about early patterns.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is included when trauma work is appropriate. Her goal is to help people feel steadier and more in control of their choices. Practical skill building is part of each session, alongside exploring how past experiences shape current reactions.
She guides clients in testing new ways of coping so they can move forward with greater confidence.
How therapeutic approaches map to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's lead; it helps people feel heard and become clearer about what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines thoughts and behaviors and uses simple exercises to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns. EMDR, when used, involves targeted processing of traumatic memories to reduce their intensity and improve day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is a team process. Patricia works collaboratively to see which methods fit a person's history, current goals, and comfort level. She may combine approaches over time and adjust methods as progress or new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for real-time conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick updates, brief coaching, and ongoing contact between longer appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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