Kari Wright
Practical support for life's hard moments
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kari
Kari Wright is a licensed social worker with two decades of practice. She greets people with straightforward care and focuses on helping them get through hard moments. Kari aims to make the first steps less overwhelming and to help people find workable ways forward.
She uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck about change.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an option when trauma memories are causing ongoing distress. Kari has substantial experience supporting people facing grief, loss, depression, and trauma. She also works with concerns like anxiety, addiction, parenting challenges, stress, sleep problems, and self-esteem.
Additional areas she addresses include attachment and adoption issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Kari is based in Michigan and holds the Licensed Master Social Worker credential, LMSW.
She speaks English. Her style is collaborative and direct. She listens, reflects back what she hears, and offers practical feedback and coping tools.
Therapy is treated as a partnership where progress grows from both people taking part.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and provides simple tools to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress.Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons to change. It can be useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps with habits or life choices.
EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps reduce the emotional charge of troubling memories by combining focused memory work with guided bilateral stimulation. It is commonly used when trauma memories keep affecting daily life.
Picking the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make therapy more accessible for people balancing jobs, caregiving, or mobility needs and allow the same practical techniques to be practiced and reviewed between meetings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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