About Kara
Kara Denahan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Rhode Island with 23 years of clinical experience. She works with individuals to address stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, mood concerns, and ADHD among other issues. Her style blends practical tools with reflective work to help people manage day-to-day struggles and make meaningful changes.
Kara began her professional path with a Bachelor of Science in Design, then returned to school for a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Rhode Island.
Background and approach
Over two decades of practice include time in agency settings and a independent practice she opened after gaining early experience. Her background gives her a broad view of how life events shape behavior and relationships. Her approach draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and trauma-focused work.
She also integrates ideas from Internal Family Systems and contemporary nervous-system research when helpful. Sessions usually combine skills practice with exploration of patterns and underlying feelings. Kara describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She helps people identify workable steps, test small changes, and develop routines that reduce stress and improve focus. When trauma or painful memories appear, she uses paced methods to keep the work manageable. Her focus areas include grief, caregiving stress, codependency, communication problems, intimacy concerns, sleeping difficulties, career issues, and life transitions.
She supports people navigating complicated family patterns and those seeking clearer sense of purpose.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to identify repeating relationship habits and try new ways of relating in daily life.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. In video or messaging sessions the therapist listens with curiosity and follows the client's lead to set goals and pace the work, which suits people who want a supportive, exploratory process.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That might mean combining gentle trauma-focused pacing, mindfulness practice, and cognitive tools to address ADHD-related focus and daily routines.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and relational work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, step-by-step reminders, and ongoing skill rehearsal between sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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