About Karla
Karla Brockman helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin. She speaks plainly and listens closely so people can say what matters without getting lost in jargon. Karla aims to build practical steps that fit into everyday life.
Karla is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, with 35 years in the mental health field. Most of her work has been in community mental health settings. That background gave her experience with many concerns, from depression and anxiety to grief and trauma.
How Karla works
She uses straightforward methods to create small, doable plans. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a primary approach she uses to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy as tools to meet each person where they are.
Sessions focus on concrete goals and step-by-step change. Karla works with people on stress, relationships, self-esteem, sleeping and eating struggles, parenting strains, career issues, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
Her style is warm and interactive. Together with each person she builds an action plan and adjusts it as progress happens. Karla practices in Kansas and conducts sessions in English, using a mix of video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs.
Karla lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Karla works with
The areas below are the ones Karla selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
How Karla’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes choosing actions that reflect personal values, which can help with grief, emptiness, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating problems, and building practical coping skills. Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel uncertain about change by strengthening motivation and clarifying goals. It pairs well with other approaches when someone wants stepwise progress. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karla collaborates with each person to figure out which methods match their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what helps most. Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel time. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or a way to work when longer sessions are hard to fit in. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while practicing skills in day-to-day life.Start online instead of waiting
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