About Kara
Kara Finamore is a clinician practicing in Maryland who brings ten years of experience to her work. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, and she focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy struggles, addiction concerns, grief, and parenting challenges.
Her approach is respectful and straightforward. She listens first, then adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs.
How Kara works
Sessions aim to be practical so people can try new skills between meetings. Kara pays attention to issues that overlap with life roles, such as work stress, career decisions, and coping with life changes. She also works with concerns like obsessive thoughts, postpartum depression, fertility-related stress, and multicultural challenges.
She recognizes how complicated health and life events can feel. People who come to her can expect a collaborative process. She helps set clear goals and checks progress along the way.
Treatment plans are adjusted as new issues or strengths appear. Her practice includes short-term problem solving and longer work when needed. She makes space for difficult topics like domestic violence, dependent personality struggles, and hospice or end-of-life concerns.
The focus stays on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more able to manage daily demands.
What Kara works with
The areas below are the ones Kara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many effective, evidence-based techniques focus on practical change. One common approach helps people break down distress into manageable parts and build skills for handling stress and anxiety. It emphasizes concrete techniques and practice between sessions to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Another approach addresses trauma and grief by helping people tell their story at a pace that feels safe and learn strategies to reduce the hold of painful memories. This work often combines emotion-focused conversations with exercises to manage overwhelming reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss the options, listen to goals and preferences, and recommend a plan that fits each person's situation. That plan can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online care includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit shorter breaks or lower bandwidth, live chat offers a fast check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when in-person visits are not possible.
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