About Karen
Karen Cino is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who helps people facing addiction, relationship strain, low self-esteem, career challenges, depression, anxiety, and grief. She speaks English and accepts international clients. Her practical aim is to help people take small, clear steps toward feeling better and more in control.
With seven years of experience, Karen focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most.
Background and approach
She encourages honest conversation about thoughts and feelings and works at the client’s pace. Sessions emphasize real goals that can change daily life. Her work often combines straightforward problem solving with attention to emotion.
That means looking at unhelpful thinking patterns while also naming and processing painful feelings. This blend helps with mood concerns, stress, trauma-related reactions, and relationship struggles. Karen also supports those dealing with complex life circumstances like adoption and foster care history, aging issues, caregiving strain from cancer or chronic illness, and challenges tied to family of origin.
She addresses co-occurring difficulties such as substance use and codependency alongside mood or anxiety symptoms. People who choose her can expect collaborative planning, practical strategies, and gentle encouragement toward new ways of coping. She aims to make change feel doable rather than overwhelming.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist offers acceptance and empathy while you lead the topics. This approach helps when you need a safe space to sort through feelings and make personal choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Sessions use practical exercises and small assignments that you can try between meetings to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily routines.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on recognizing and expressing core emotions in relationships and personal patterns. It can be useful when intimacy, attachment, or long-standing relationship wounds are part of the concern.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with you to decide which methods to use, adapt them as your goals shift, and check in about what’s helping. That way the plan stays tailored to your needs and preferences.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls make it possible to see facial cues and hold deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to use video. Live chat or text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when a shorter contact fits your day. These options make starting and continuing therapy easier around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English