About Kara
Kara Anglin offers warm, practical support using a client-centered approach. She keeps things simple and direct, helping people untangle stress, anxiety, and relationship strain. Kara meets people where they are and focuses on small, useful steps toward clearer thinking and steadier days.
Kara is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Florida. She draws on six years of experience helping people cope with depression, life transitions, parenting pressures, and work-related stress.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving communication, reducing panic symptoms, and building self-esteem. In a typical first meeting, Kara asks what brought someone to therapy and what they hope to change. She pays attention to day-to-day needs and practical goals.
Sessions are conversational and paced to match the person’s comfort level. Her work blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques when they fit the person’s goals.
The approach is about finding what helps each person feel more in control and less overwhelmed. Kara also addresses family-related concerns such as blended family challenges, family of origin issues, and communication problems. She brings experience with multicultural and immigration-related stress, domestic violence impacts, and young adult concerns.
Her aim is to help people develop coping skills and restore balance in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a strong working relationship. The therapist follows the person’s pace and priorities, offering empathy and space to make sense of what’s happening in life. This approach is useful when someone needs support sorting out feelings and choosing next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected. It teaches simple strategies to challenge unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood, panic symptoms, and workplace stress.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It teaches grounding, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that people can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on CBT tools, DBT skills, mindfulness practice, or a mix of methods based on needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let the therapist and client work through issues face-to-face. Phone sessions can be good when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short updates, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and maintain consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English