Karie Leduc
Calm, practical therapy for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Karie
Karie Leduc is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 19 years of experience. She offers practical, steady support when life feels overwhelming or stuck. Karie focuses on helping people sort through painful events, upsetting patterns, and big life changes to make clearer decisions going forward.
Her approach is collaborative and direct. Sessions mix listening with active guidance so clients can set clear goals and take concrete steps. Karie pays attention to feelings and nonverbal cues to better understand what is getting in the way of progress.
Background and approach
In therapy she helps people connect with inner strengths and notice patterns that no longer serve them. Together they work to identify resources, shift unhelpful responses, and build skills to manage stress, anxiety, sleep or eating difficulties, and mood challenges. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma, and major life transitions.
Karie brings a history of community mental health work and independent practice to her sessions. Her background includes nearly two decades as a Rhode Island licensed clinician and many years helping people navigate employment, education, relationships, and loss. She uses that experience to guide practical problem solving and steady emotional work.
Her practice offers flexible formats for communication and scheduling. Karie responds to messages multiple times daily and adapts session style to each person’s needs, aiming for straightforward, emotionally honest progress.
Practical therapeutic methods and online care
Many clients benefit from focused, skills-based approaches. One common technique involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of responding to reduce anxiety and depressive moods. This helps with stress, worry, and decision-making by teaching simple tools to try between sessions.Another useful method centers on working with emotions directly. Sessions attend closely to feelings and body cues to understand what matters most and where change is needed. This approach supports people dealing with grief, trauma responses, intimacy-related struggles, and anger by helping them name and work through strong emotions.
Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to figure out which tools and strategies match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set goals and adjust the approach as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, follow up between meetings, and keep momentum when schedules change. Licensed professionals can use these formats to provide consistent, ongoing support from wherever the client is located.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
Next step
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