Kari Snelson
Calm guidance for life’s hard changes
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kari
Kari Snelson is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado. She brings 19 years of professional experience to therapeutic work and focuses on relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, motivation and self-esteem, and depression. Kari aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk frankly about what’s on their minds.
She often encourages practical steps and honest conversation to help people move forward. Her approach emphasizes clarity and collaboration.
Background and approach
Sessions typically focus on identifying what’s getting in the way, naming feelings, and choosing small changes that make daily life easier. Kari draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address issues such as grief, addictions, and coping with life changes. She also supports people navigating intimacy-related concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and career stresses.
Additional areas of focus include blended family issues, multicultural concerns, postpartum depression, dissociation, and first responder issues. She also works with concerns around infidelity, obsessions and compulsions, eating and sleeping problems, and self-harm. Kari uses plain language in sessions and checks in often to make sure the work fits each person’s pace.
People working together with her can expect straightforward planning and steps they can try between sessions. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make that step feel manageable. Her practice includes multiple online formats to suit different needs.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Kari uses well-established, evidence-based techniques that focus on clear goals and practical change. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and then practices new ways of responding; this is useful for depression, anxiety, and day-to-day coping. Another approach centers on processing traumatic experiences in manageable steps, helping reduce the hold those memories can have on current relationships and feelings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kari works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. She explains options plainly and checks in regularly to make sure the work feels useful and on pace.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more convenient. These formats allow sessions from home or other locations, support flexible scheduling, and let people use the communication style that suits them best. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and check-ins to work well across these formats.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
Next step
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