About Kara
Dr. Kara Richardson-Cline is a Minnesota-licensed psychologist who brings eight years of clinical experience to her work. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, addictions, and related concerns.
Her style is calm and focused on what each person wants to change. Dr. Richardson-Cline draws on client-centered and attachment-informed ideas to build a respectful therapeutic relationship.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness tools to address patterns of thinking, behavior, and daily routines.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at small, manageable steps rather than big, abstract plans. People meet her to work on sleep problems, coping with illness or caregiver stress, relationship communication, and career or life transitions. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family stress, body image, and compassion fatigue.
Practical skills for emotion regulation and better day-to-day functioning are common session goals. Her approach is collaborative: she listens first, then offers strategies that fit the person's goals and lifestyle. She pays attention to medical and life context when recommending changes.
Hypnotherapy and mindfulness are used selectively to help with focus, stress reduction, and changing habits. Outside of work she enjoys time outdoors and with her two dogs, which sometimes appear on video sessions. She aims to make therapy doable for busy lives and supports international clients as well.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. In therapy this looks like talking through important relationships and patterns to build more supported ways of relating and reduce worry around connections.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's goals and pace. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the person identify the next practical steps. This approach supports people who want a respectful, nonjudgmental space to sort priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. It often includes short exercises to change thinking and behavior, and is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and ADHD-related challenges like organization and focus.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dr. Richardson-Cline will discuss your goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed in collaboration with you. This keeps sessions practical and targeted to what actually helps in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when you connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and can include brief demonstrations or guided mindfulness. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick questions, ongoing check-ins, and fitting therapy into busy schedules. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and apply new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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