About Kari
Kari Mackneer is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood swings, addiction, grief, trauma, and ADHD. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can use day to day. Kari treats clients with respect and without judgment while working toward clearer goals and better routines.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs rather than one fixed method.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Mindfulness techniques offer simple tools for staying present and reducing overwhelm. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Kari often helps people sort practical problems first - sleep, eating, daily structure, and addictive patterns - and then works on mood, self-esteem, and relationships. Sessions tend to focus on short, doable experiments that build confidence outside of therapy. She also supports people navigating career shifts, caregiving stress, body image, and communication issues.
Her background includes years in multiple clinical settings where she worked with people facing complex, overlapping concerns like co-morbidity, trauma, and substance use. That experience informs a straightforward, warm style that blends skill teaching with honest conversation. People can expect a collaborative process: Kari will listen, help set clear goals, and adjust approaches as progress is made.
She aims to help people build routines and skills that fit their daily life and long-term aims.
How different approaches translate to online support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful connection so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a steady, accepting place to sort things out. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses short experiments to shift patterns - useful for anxiety, mood, and ADHD-related routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches clear skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress.Kari treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their life, and adjust plans as progress is made. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually feels doable for the client.
Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is good for deeper conversation and practicing new skills together, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and brief chats or texts suit quick check-ins or tools between sessions. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel while still receiving consistent therapeutic support.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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