About Karen
Karen Lakritz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 30 years as a psychotherapist. She draws on long experience to help people facing stress, mood problems, addiction, grief, and complex mental health concerns. Her manner is warm and direct, and she aims to make sessions understandable and useful for busy parents.
She brings practical strategies for anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and sleep or eating concerns. She has worked with people affected by trauma, relationship struggles, intimacy questions, and career or life transitions.
How Karen works
She also helps with caregiving strain, chronic illness, codependency, and compassion fatigue. Karen describes her style as supportive and respectful while keeping clients accountable to their goals. Sessions emphasize clear steps people can try between meetings, plus space to talk about feelings and setbacks.
She is aware of non-neurotypical experience and notes personal challenges with a mild stutter and dyslexia that shape her perspective. Her methods include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, attachment-informed work, client-centered listening, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. Karen says she will collaborate with each person to pick the best mix for their needs.
Based in Florida, she also has lived much of the year in Canada in recent years and understands some cross-border health and housing matters. She works with people in English and accepts international clients for remote sessions.
Karen lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Karen works with
The areas below are the ones Karen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that match those values while learning ways to accept painful feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current connection and trust, which can help with intimacy problems, abandonment concerns, and relationship communication.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That shared process helps match methods to an individual's needs and preferences rather than following a rigid protocol.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and teaching exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or coaching between visits. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel and let people choose the format that best fits their routine.
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