About Kari
Kari Mackneer is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, bipolar symptoms, grief, and ADHD. She supports people facing relationship strain, family problems, work stress, and changes in life circumstances. Kari takes a respectful, nonjudgmental approach and focuses on what each person needs right now.
She uses practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral work to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Kari works
Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to help manage overwhelming feelings and improve sleep and focus. Dialectical behavior ideas are used when emotion regulation and coping skills are priorities. Sessions begin with a clear conversation about goals.
Together they build a plan that fits daily life and personal values. The work is collaborative - the person and Kari decide which tools to try and how to adjust them over time. Kari has long experience with addiction-related concerns, trauma and abuse, eating and food-related issues, and the emotional effects of caregiving and aging.
She also helps people struggling with body image, emptiness, communication problems, and codependency. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. English-language services are available and international clients are accepted.
The tone in sessions is warm, straightforward, and focused on practical steps forward.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Kari’s Approaches Fit Online Therapy
Kari uses client-centered work to focus conversations on each person’s needs and goals. That approach emphasizes listening, respect, and practical problem solving to help someone feel heard and move toward change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. CBT offers concrete exercises and homework that translate well to video or messaging formats and can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques are employed when emotion regulation and coping skills are needed. DBT-style skills practice can be taught in sessions and reinforced through messaging between meetings for steady progress.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill demonstrations, phone sessions can fit into a busy day with less bandwidth, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging is helpful for brief reflections or skill practice between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into real life while keeping the focus on practical steps forward.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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