About Karla
Karla Garcia-Velez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who uses practical, person-focused methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She speaks both English and Spanish and draws on several therapy styles to meet individual needs. Karla aims to make therapy straightforward and manageable for people juggling busy lives and big emotions.
With seven years of clinical experience, Karla helps people work through issues like self-esteem, grief, addiction, relationship and family concerns, and sleep problems.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with caregiving strain, chronic illness, cancer-related challenges, and end-of-life concerns. Her background includes work on trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles. Karla uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and hypnotherapy as tools to match with each person’s needs.
She focuses on clear, practical skills you can use between sessions. Therapy conversations are collaborative and goal-oriented, not dictated by jargon. In sessions she helps people identify manageable steps, set realistic goals, and practice new ways of handling stress and worry.
She also addresses communication problems, commitment and control issues, and family of origin concerns when those affect a person’s wellbeing. The work often blends coping skills, values-driven choices, and emotional processing. For someone unsure where to start, Karla aims to build a simple plan tailored to daily life.
She encourages small, steady changes that add up over time. This pace helps people balance therapy with work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
Online approaches that focus on values and skills
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps despite difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where clarity about priorities is helpful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep problems. It emphasizes practical exercises and short-term techniques that can be practiced between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful for people struggling with emotional overwhelm and relationship conflicts.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that fit the person’s needs. Adjustments are made along the way based on how the work is going.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick support, ongoing coaching, and practicing skills between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep work practical and goal-focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English, Spanish