About Karensa
Karensa Lewis is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience. She welcomes people who are wrestling with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, or ADHD and offers a steady, practical presence. She writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person.
Karensa trained in social work at the bachelor and master level and completed a clinical fellowship in individual counseling. She has worked across settings including inpatient and outpatient psychiatric clinics, residential facilities, hospice, and human services programs that supported foster and adoptive parents.
Background and approach
Her practice focuses on everyday problems and big life shifts alike. She helps people handle parenting stress, career uncertainty, intimacy concerns, anger, and long-term mood challenges such as bipolar disorder. She also supports people coping with abandonment, attachment wounds, and the practical fallout of separation or divorce.
In sessions she blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral tools. She uses emotionally-focused and existential ways of talking when those fit the situation. The emphasis is on finding what works for each person and adjusting as needed.
Karensa aims to be warm, honest, and nonjudgmental while offering useful feedback. She invites questions and encourages clients to say when something in therapy does or does not feel helpful. Her goal is to help people build skills, make clearer choices, and feel more able to handle life’s challenges.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and trust formed early in life. Online sessions using this approach explore how those patterns affect current relationships and help people practice different ways of relating.Client-Centered Therapy centers the client's own experience and pace. The therapist offers empathic listening and reflective questions so the person can find their own solutions and build confidence.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In online work this often means identifying unhelpful thinking and trying short, practical experiments between sessions.
Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and which methods feel right. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and do deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing homework support, or when someone prefers writing. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different ways of working together.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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