About Karen
Karen Lakritz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist. She sees people facing anxiety, depression, grief, substance issues, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, among other concerns. Her years of practice include helping people navigate major life changes and ongoing mental health challenges.
She describes her style as warm and supportive. Sessions combine respect and compassion with clear expectations and accountability. Karen aims to create a straightforward space where people can talk through what’s most pressing and try out new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her background includes long clinical experience across a wide range of concerns, from trauma and addiction to sleep and eating difficulties. She also notes lived experience with a mild stutter and dyslexia, which informs her understanding of non-neurotypical challenges. Karen uses practical, evidence-based strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, and client-centered care.
She and the client decide together which tools to try and how to measure progress. She has spent significant time living part of each year in Canada and is familiar with health and housing systems there. That experience can be helpful for people who are navigating services across regions.
Karen invites people to start with a short conversation to see if her way of working fits their needs.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, behaviors, and small experiments to reduce symptoms and build new skills for problems like depression, anxiety, and sleep difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current reactions, which can help with intimacy, trust, and relationship struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most practical. Together they will try methods and adjust based on what helps you make steady changes.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and full session work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, mood tracking, or when messaging fits a schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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