About Karyn
Dr. Karyn Smith uses a blend of practical therapies to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. She is a Minnesota psychologist with 25 years of experience and a direct, compassionate manner.
Dr. Smith introduces clear steps and short-term goals to help people move forward at a pace that feels manageable. Her work focuses on everyday problems like sleep, eating, parenting, career worries, and coping with big life changes.
How Karyn works
She also supports people dealing with addiction, grief, intimacy-related concerns, ADHD, and challenges tied to gender and sexual identity. She adapts conversations and goals to each person’s situation rather than offering one-size-fits-all advice. Sessions are conversational and interactive.
Dr. Smith draws on client-centered listening alongside cognitive and behavioral strategies to teach new skills. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try simple experiments, and track progress between meetings.
Over her career she has worked with survivors of neglect, physical and sexual trauma, and emotional abuse. She brings that experience into treatment plans that address safety, coping skills, and rebuilding trust in oneself. Her style is warm, respectful, and focused on practical steps.
Dr. Smith holds the credential MN Psychologist 6271, indicating licensure in Minnesota. She offers sessions by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect people and schedule sessions.
Karyn lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Karyn works with
The areas below are the ones Karyn 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | MN Psychologist |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with skills and experiments that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Client-Centered Therapy centers on respectful, nonjudgmental listening so people feel heard while they work through goals and changes.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining methods, trying brief experiments, and adjusting plans as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversational work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging helps with brief coaching or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping regular momentum toward goals.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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