About Karla
Karla Lewis is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Virginia. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship struggles. Her manner is warm and respectful, and she aims to make conversations practical and useful from the first meeting.
With ten years of experience, Karla has worked in many settings, including hospitals, inpatient psychiatry, jails, emergency services, and community treatment teams.
Background and approach
That variety shaped a flexible approach to common and complex problems. She also spent time educating law enforcement on responding to people in mental health crisis. In sessions she uses client-centered conversation alongside cognitive behavioral ideas and emotion-focused techniques.
That means she listens first, helps clarify what matters to the client, and then introduces tools to change unhelpful thinking and rebuild connection in relationships. She adjusts methods to match each person’s goals and circumstances. Karla is comfortable addressing topics such as trauma, addiction, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and issues related to intimacy and LGBT identities.
She also works with people facing life transitions, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, and blended family challenges. Her style is interactive and practical. Expect clear steps, honest feedback, and room to track small gains.
The goal is steady progress you can notice between sessions.
How Karla’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It helps people who feel stuck make purposeful changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens deeply and follows the client’s lead to build insight and self-direction.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Karla will listen to your goals, try techniques that match your needs, and adjust methods over time. Together you’ll identify what feels most helpful and focus on concrete steps you can practice between sessions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences. Video works well for full sessions that mirror an in-person meeting, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support brief check-ins or skill practice during the week. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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