Karla Brockman
Calm, practical help for life's challenges
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Karla
Karla Brockman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) who focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and other life challenges. She aims to provide a warm, interactive presence and help each person find clear steps to feel better. Her tone is supportive and straightforward in sessions.
She brings 35 years of experience working mostly in community mental health. That background means she is familiar with a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting-related stress.
Background and approach
She also has experience with issues like caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, and adjustment after major life events. Karla uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to tailor work to each person.
Sessions emphasize practical skills, short-term goals, and real-life steps. People meet her and work together to build an action plan that fits their situation. She encourages open conversation about goals and what changes a person wants to see.
Her approach is hands-on and collaborative, with attention to concrete progress. Based in Kansas, Karla offers services in English and provides therapy through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to shift those patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s situation and adjust the plan as progress is made. This collaborative process helps find practical tools that feel relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to connect from home or work and to fit therapy into a busy schedule. They also let clients use short check-ins and ongoing messaging when that suits their needs, while keeping the focus on clear goals and actionable steps.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What are her credentials and location?
Which languages are supported?
What session formats are available?
How does pricing work?
How do I begin working with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Karla
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point