About Kari
Kari Oshinski is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people reduce stress and anxiety, improve relationships, and build greater self-esteem. Kari uses a straightforward, supportive style that aims to help clients make small, practical changes they can keep up with.
Kari says therapy often starts with clearer routines and kinder self-talk. She helps people adjust daily habits and the ways they talk to themselves.
How Kari works
That can include small shifts in self-care, communication, and how relationships are handled. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns. She helps people dealing with blended family issues, caregiver stress, body image and eating-related worries, and the fallout from divorce or separation.
Kari also supports people facing family of origin struggles, communication problems, guilt and shame, and loneliness. Kari draws on practical methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to change unhelpful patterns. She also uses motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, and solution-focused tools to set realistic goals and move forward.
Sessions focus on doable steps toward a clearer sense of purpose and self-love. With six years of experience as an LMFT, Kari aims to create a warm, hopeful environment. She works in English with people located in Wisconsin.
The approach is collaborative and down-to-earth, built around the client’s priorities and pace.
Kari lists 6 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and progress
Kari commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and helps people try practical experiments to reduce anxiety and improve behavior. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and stay present, which can help with anxiety, self-criticism, and low mood.She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and to build small, sustainable goals. That approach is useful when someone wants clearer direction or support to start new habits. Kari treats the choice of method as a collaborative process; she will work with clients to figure out what fits their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people balance therapy with work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while focusing on steady, practical change.
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