About Karen
Karen Bradt is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship pain. She uses clear, practical steps to address intense emotions and difficult life changes. Clients who struggle with trauma, sleep problems, anger, or addictions may find her approach down-to-earth and action oriented.
Karen blends talk therapy with education about how the brain responds to stress and trauma. She emphasizes simple experiments and concrete tools to change reactions to triggers.
Background and approach
Physical activity and body awareness are part of her view of healing, so movement and grounding techniques may be discussed. Sessions usually begin with getting to know what a person wants to work on and what feels most urgent. She explains diagnoses and brain function in plain language, then tries small, manageable steps to build new responses.
If a technique does not fit, she adjusts the plan and tries another option. Her background includes a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master’s in clinical social work from the University of Central Florida. Karen brings 15 years of clinical experience and a focus on trauma, attachment issues, and communication problems.
Her work also addresses caregiver stress, codependency, dissociation, and first responder concerns. She is based in Florida and holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Sessions are offered in English and can include video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging depending on what the person prefers.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work brings attention to body sensation and movement as part of healing. In online sessions this can mean guided breathing, grounding exercises, and noticing physical cues that connect to emotions. It is useful for anxiety, trauma, and stress where the body holds tension.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current reactions. It involves talking about relationship history, noticing interaction patterns, and trying new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs without judgment. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps people find their own solutions to emotional problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That conversation guides which techniques to try and how to adapt them for online sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around family life, work, and travel. Many people find the range of formats helps them keep continuity in care and practice tools between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English