About Karey
Karey Thompson is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) based in Ohio who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns. She also supports those working on self-esteem and coping with life changes. Karey combines practical skills with calm, direct conversation to make therapy useful and manageable.
She draws on 16 years of clinical experience to tailor sessions to each person. Karey uses approaches that pay attention to how relationships shape emotion and behavior.
How Karey works
She also incorporates mindfulness and reflective conversation to help people notice patterns and make different choices. Her background includes long-term work in community mental health and focused support for first responders and members of the Ohio Army National Guard. That experience shaped her skill at helping people through high-stress moments and life transitions.
Karey is familiar with grief, hospice and end-of-life counseling as well as caregiver stress and other practical burdens. Sessions are collaborative. Karey listens for a person’s goals and helps map small, achievable steps toward them.
She can work on communication problems, attachment concerns, codependency, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and issues that arise in blended families or during separation and divorce. People who meet with her often want straightforward strategies and time to reflect. Karey blends curiosity with clear guidance so clients can practice new ways of relating, coping, and making choices in daily life.
Karey lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Karey works with
The areas below are the ones Karey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that shape online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships affect feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and work toward greater security and connection. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience; the therapist follows the client’s lead and helps create space to talk through what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karey will discuss different methods and help decide what fits a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can evolve as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life, whether scheduling around work, caregiving, or other demands.
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