About Karla
Karla Lewis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with ten years of practical experience. She offers a down-to-earth approach that focuses on clear goals and steady progress. Karla speaks directly and kindly to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and challenges related to parenting or life transitions.
She draws on straightforward methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build better habits. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most, set small steps, and practice new skills between meetings.
How Karla works
Karla also works with concerns such as addictions, sleep problems, anger, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues. Her background includes work in emergency services, inpatient psychiatric care, jails, hospitals, and community treatment programs. She has taught law enforcement about responding to people in mental health crisis.
That range of settings shaped a practical, no-nonsense style that values safety and respect. Karla uses a blend of therapeutic approaches to match each person’s needs. She leans on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients connect with their values, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to shift patterns of thinking, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to improve emotional understanding in relationships.
Client-Centered and Existential ideas inform how she listens and supports meaning-making. Sessions are offered in English and are available online by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Karla works with many common life problems and aims to help people find practical ways forward while building resilience.
Karla lists 10 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that reflect what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in close relationships to improve connection and reduce conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Karla will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. That may mean combining ACT, CBT, EFT, and client-centered listening to create a plan that feels useful and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into busy days, live chat supports short check-ins, and text-based messaging provides ongoing, written contact between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family duties, or other obligations.
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