About Kari
Kari Wright is a licensed master social worker with 20 years of experience helping people through hard seasons. She practices from Michigan and focuses on clear, practical support for everyday problems. Kari greets each person with respect and listens first so she can understand the real struggle.
Kari usually draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and EMDR when those approaches fit the need. She works with concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, depression, anxiety, stress, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
How Kari works
She also supports people facing parenting strain, career shifts, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She validates feelings, gives feedback, and helps people notice patterns that get in the way.
Sessions are a two-way effort where goals and techniques are shaped together. Kari also addresses many specific life challenges like abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, body image, and blended family dynamics.
She is open to talking about faith when clients want that included, and she will not bring religion into sessions if clients prefer not to. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Kari describes therapy as a process you build together and aims to help people find realistic steps forward.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online therapy
CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online sessions can include simple skill practice and homework to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress. DBT focuses on emotion regulation and coping skills. It is useful for intense emotions, anger, or self-destructive patterns and can be taught in short skill-based video or text sessions. EMDR addresses memories linked to trauma by guiding attention while clients recall distressing experiences, which can reduce the intensity of those memories and related symptoms. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that fit those needs. Clients and therapist adjust the plan over time so techniques match progress and comfort. Online formats make regular work easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflections, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility for different schedules and everyday demands, while keeping the focus on steady progress.Start online instead of waiting
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