About Kara
Dr. Kara Richardson-Cline is a Minnesota psychologist with eight years of clinical experience. She holds the credential MN Psychologist LP5835 and provides care for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, sleep problems, depression, ADHD, addictions, and related concerns.
She focuses on what each person wants to change. Sessions center on practical goals and skills that can be used between appointments. She blends approaches so the work matches a person’s needs rather than forcing a single method.
How Kara works
Kara has worked in medical settings and has experience supervising other mental health providers. That background informs her attention to co-occurring medical and psychological concerns, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and issues that arise during life transitions.
Her additional focus areas include attachment challenges, adoption and foster care matters, aging and geriatric issues, body image and self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and relationship communication problems. She also helps people coping with cancer, chronic pain, and the stress that comes with caregiving. In sessions she uses client-centered conversations alongside cognitive-behavioral and attachment-based techniques.
She also employs mindfulness-based practices and hypnotherapy when appropriate. The aim is steady progress toward goals like improved mood, better sleep, reduced anxiety, or clearer direction in career and relationships. Outside of work she enjoys time outdoors and with her family and dogs, who sometimes appear on video calls.
She welcomes international clients and offers multiple online session formats to fit different needs.
Kara lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | MN Psychologist |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection, trust, and recurring relationship problems in plain terms and supports building more supported ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person’s own goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people decide the next steps that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact; it teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, mood, sleep, and coping with life changes.Figuring out the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adapt the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps match methods like attachment work, client-centered conversations, mindfulness practices, or CBT skills to what actually helps.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client use face-to-face interaction for skill practice and observation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or those who communicate better in writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while still working toward clear goals.
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