About Kari
Kari Fenton is a licensed mental health counselor who has practiced for 13 years in Nebraska. She offers an affirming and compassionate approach for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and trauma. Kari focuses on helping clients explore identity, sexuality, and relationship concerns in a respectful way.
Kari uses plain talk and steady support to help people build coping skills and increase self-understanding. Sessions emphasize practical steps for managing anxiety, handling life changes, and improving communication.
How Kari works
She pays careful attention to issues around shame, guilt, and compassion fatigue so clients can move toward more self-compassion. Her work also includes attention to complex sexual cultures and relationship structures, including kink and polyamory, with an aim to reduce stigma and improve safety and consent. Kari addresses dissociation, codependency, and patterns that keep people stuck.
For those coping with abuse or post-traumatic stress, she provides focused support for processing painful experiences. Kari blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered listening, and emotionally-focused methods to guide sessions. She draws on narrative and trauma-focused tools when a client needs to reframe experiences or work through past harm.
The goal is practical change that fits each person’s life and values. People meet Kari by completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling through the service. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to accommodate different needs and preferences.
Kari lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Kari works with
The areas below are the ones Kari selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LIMHP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nebraska |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kari uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on living according to their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and making changes that feel meaningful.Client-centered therapy is a core part of her work, which means sessions begin with careful listening and reflection. This approach helps people feel heard and build trust before moving to practical skills.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kari will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adapt techniques from different methods to match changing needs over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be a quicker check-in on a break, live chat suits shorter exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel plans.
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