Kara Jakubec
Support for parents and family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kara
Kara Jakubec is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with five years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping families and parents navigate stress, parenting struggles, and life changes. Her work also addresses anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns.
She aims to help people find practical steps forward and regain a sense of direction when things feel overwhelming. Before focusing full time on counseling, she held roles in administration and consultation within mental health settings.
Background and approach
That background informs how she organizes care and communicates with families. She has worked with individuals, groups, and families affected by substance use and recovery and has supported parents whose children face mental health challenges. Her style centers on listening first and then building clear, doable steps together.
She uses a person-centered stance combined with cognitive and reality therapy ideas to identify where someone feels stuck and what might move them forward. Sessions tend to focus on concrete strategies and achievable goals rather than abstract theory. Kara helps clients map out a personal plan and checks in on progress along the way.
She encourages clients to define what they want and to try small changes that add up. Her approach is collaborative and practical, with attention to family dynamics and parenting needs. She offers services in English and practices from Texas.
Her background working in adolescent mental health and substance use settings contributes to her work with parents and family systems.
Evidence-based methods and online family support
She draws on person-centered principles that focus on listening closely and treating the client as the expert on their life. This approach helps clarify priorities and builds trust before moving to specific strategies.She also uses techniques from cognitive therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking. That approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and staying motivated to make change. Reality therapy ideas guide practical planning, helping clients set concrete goals and take small steps toward them, which often resonates with parents and families seeking tangible progress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan as needed to stay focused and effective.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats provide flexibility for busy families and allow work to continue between appointments. They make it easier to fit therapy into a daily routine and to access support from home or on the go.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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