About Karin
Karin Gardner is a licensed clinician who uses a person-centered approach to help people through hard times. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices in New York. Karin listens carefully and works with each person to set practical goals for change.
Karin focuses on common problems like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She also helps people coping with chronic or acute illness, family conflict, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
Her work includes support around parenting, sleep trouble, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, and attention differences. Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions are collaborative and strengths-based.
She helps people notice patterns, try new skills, and build routines that make daily life easier. Karin draws from several approaches including cognitive strategies, acceptance-based work, attachment ideas, and emotion-focused tools. She adapts techniques to each person rather than using one fixed method.
This helps address issues like trauma, abandonment, dissociation, and communication problems in practical ways. With seven years of clinical experience, Karin combines steady clinical practice with a humanistic outlook. She supports people facing complex situations such as chronic pain, caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, and family of origin problems.
Karin aims to help people move toward clearer values, better coping, and more satisfying relationships.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small steps that match those values to improve daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change them, which can ease anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karin will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time, combining strategies when needed, so treatment stays focused on what the person wants to change.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coping reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- New York, Vermont
- Languages
- English