About Karie
Karie Bailey is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with individuals who are juggling parenting, family responsibilities, and career demands. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they feel and think without pressure.
Her approach is practical and goal-focused. She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing is used to support change when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set clear, short-term goals and build on what already works. Karie brings three decades of practice in Oklahoma to her sessions.
That experience includes supporting people through blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and the effects of serious illness such as cancer. She also helps with communication problems, codependency, and the stress that follows divorce or separation. Sessions usually focus on concrete steps clients can try between meetings.
She encourages small experiments to test new ways of relating and coping. Over time those small steps add up to clearer choices and less overwhelm. She offers a straightforward, compassionate style and aims to help people regain a sense of balance.
Karie uses plain language in sessions and works collaboratively to match strategies to each person’s life and goals.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Karie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or low mood. This approach breaks problems into specific patterns to work on step by step.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck or unsure about change. That method focuses on clarifying personal goals and strengthening motivation before moving to action.
Finding the right method is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then try approaches that fit. Sessions evolve based on what helps most, and adjustments are made together as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can fit brief updates or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and try new strategies amid busy family and work routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English