Kara Anderson

Kara Anderson is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 29 years of clinical experience. She practices from Florida and brings a calm, warm style to sessions. Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and career concerns.

She started counseling in 1994 as a residential therapist in a psychiatric hospital. Over the years she moved into outpatient care, clinical supervision, program management, and direction at substance abuse and nonprofit mental health agencies. In 2014 she returned to Florida and began an online practice that she has maintained for years.

Her approach is humanistic and client-centered, emphasizing the therapeutic relationship as the core of change. Sessions are interactive and compassionate, and she can be direct and structured when a plan or tasks will help progress. She often suggests homework or exercises between meetings to keep momentum going.

Kara also uses cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior strategies along with mindfulness and motivational interviewing when those methods fit a person's goals. She aims to pace work to each individual's needs and to help people regain balance across life domains when stress, illness, or role demands create disruption.

Her education includes a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Miami and a master's degree in mental health counseling from Nova Southeastern University. She also completed post-graduate coursework at the University of Dayton in career counseling and the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.

How Kara’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and building a trusting relationship. In online sessions that means the therapist prioritizes understanding your goals and pacing the work to what feels manageable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Online CBT often uses short skills practice, thought records, and homework to track changes between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings attention to emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Those DBT strategies can be taught in-session and practiced as part of daily routines.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked before, then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made as work progresses so treatment stays relevant to the client’s needs.

This therapist’s biography describes an established online practice but does not list specific session formats. Confirm current session options before booking to see what formats are offered. Online counseling can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports continuing work when schedules or location make in-person visits difficult.