About Karin
Karin Gardner is a licensed social worker who uses a person-centered approach to help people make practical changes. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices in New York. Karin keeps sessions straightforward and focused on everyday problems and strengths.
Karin helps people cope with stress and anxiety, manage depression, and work through grief. She also supports those facing relationship strain, family conflict, sleep problems, parenting challenges, and major life changes.
How Karin works
Karin offers care for people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and career-related concerns. Her method centers on listening first and then building on what each person already does well. She draws on therapies such as acceptance and commitment strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based work, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches.
The goal is practical skills you can use between sessions, not just conversation. With seven years of experience, Karin blends a warm, humanistic style with structured tools when they help. Sessions aim to feel collaborative and respectful while addressing concrete goals.
She encourages small steps that add up to meaningful change. Karin works in English and sees people in New York. She supports clients facing a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar disorder, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Her focus is on clear goals and steady progress.
Karin lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Karin works with
The areas below are the ones Karin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts and values and then taking actions that match what matters most. It can help people struggling with anxiety, depression, and life changes who want clearer direction and concrete next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for worry, sleep problems, mood shifts, and coping with stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop healthier ways of relating to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karin will collaborate with clients to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She combines person-centered listening with targeted techniques and adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text support quick check-ins or ongoing processing between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working on concrete skills and steady progress.
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