About Khara
Khara Harper is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She works with individuals on career and workplace issues, caregiver strain, and compassion fatigue. Khara supports people facing trauma, relationship concerns, and challenges with self-esteem.
She views therapy as a collaborative process. Khara focuses on practical steps that people can try between sessions. Her style is direct but warm, and she aims to help people build skills they can use right away.
How Khara works
Khara draws from several evidence-based approaches to match the needs of each person. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. She also offers techniques from acceptance-based and solution-focused approaches to help people clarify values and set manageable goals.
Sessions often include problem-solving for workplace stress, communication strategies for strained relationships, and coping tools for end-of-life care and caregiving roles. Khara incorporates skills from dialectical behavior approaches when people need help regulating strong emotions and improving distress tolerance. People meet with Khara by phone, video call, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided from her practice in Illinois. Therapy subscriptions can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the site's matching and booking steps.
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What Khara works with
The areas below are the ones Khara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and practical support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when emotions are hard. It can help with anxiety, life changes, and decisions about work or caregiving. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and to improve problem solving. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers tools for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Khara will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She may combine techniques from several approaches so the plan matches what the person wants to accomplish.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when desired. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day. These options help people access care from different locations and schedules while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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