About Kira
Kira Karabanovs is an Ohio-licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Her approach is respectful and straightforward, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
She often begins by listening closely to what feels hardest right now. Then she and the client set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions include talking through thoughts and behaviors, experimenting with new coping skills, and checking progress together. Kira uses elements of cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thinking and try alternatives. She also draws on motivational interviewing to support change when motivation feels stuck.
For clients who bring painful memories, she incorporates trauma-focused ideas to address how past events affect current life. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She explains options plainly and adjusts the pace to each person.
The focus is on useful tools clients can use between sessions to improve mood, concentration, and daily routine. With eight years of experience as an LISW - Licensed Independent Social Worker, she brings clinical experience from community and clinical settings. People who want direct feedback, clear strategies, and steady encouragement often find this helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people notice patterns of thought and behavior that get in the way. It breaks problems into manageable parts and tests small changes to see what helps with mood, focus, and daily routines.Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that supports people who feel stuck about change. It centers the person's own reasons for change and builds motivation in a nonjudgmental way.
Trauma-focused therapy looks at how past painful events affect current feelings and reactions. It helps people make sense of those patterns and develop safer ways of coping when reminders appear.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kira will collaborate with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she will adjust plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates between sessions or check in on the go. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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