About Kara
Kara Fedore is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Tennessee with eight years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and major life changes. Kara offers a calm, steady presence and practical ways forward for people feeling stuck.
Before providing online services she spent years supporting individuals facing trauma, domestic violence, and acute crisis. That work shaped a willingness to address difficult topics at a manageable pace.
Background and approach
Kara draws on many approaches to match what each person needs in the moment. Her style is straightforward and person-centered. Sessions often focus on small, concrete steps that build confidence and reduce daily distress.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful thinking patterns and from dialectical skills to manage intense emotions. Kara also incorporates EMDR elements when past events keep showing up as barriers to moving forward. Motivational interviewing helps when people are unsure about change or feel stuck in cycles like substance use.
She mixes these methods to create a plan that fits each person’s goals. She invites people to treat therapy as a regular appointment with themselves. Kara aims to make sessions practical and hopeful while respecting each person’s pace.
If someone wants help sorting through emotions, relationships, or purpose, she helps find a clear first step.
How therapy approaches translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. Online sessions let Kara follow each person’s pace and priorities while offering regular times to check progress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. In remote sessions she uses practical exercises, homework, and real-time skill practice to reduce anxiety and shift daily routines.
EMDR can help when past events keep interfering with current life. Online work can include guided processing and grounding techniques adapted for phone or video formats when that matches a person’s needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kara collaborates with each client to choose methods that suit their goals, comfort level, and the problems they want to solve. She adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone can be easier with limited bandwidth or when someone prefers voice only. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins, shorter exchanges, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep steady momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English