Karla Lewis
Calm practical support for real-life struggles
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Karla
Karla Lewis is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of experience supporting people who are stressed, anxious, depressed, or facing big life changes. She also helps people with relationship concerns, parenting struggles, trauma and abuse, substance issues, ADHD, and intimacy-related questions. Karla approaches work with warmth and straightforwardness to make difficult conversations easier to start.
She keeps sessions practical and interactive. Conversations focus on what matters day to day, like sleep, anger, communication, and coping skills.
Background and approach
Karla uses tried methods to help people notice what gets in the way and try different ways of responding. Her background includes work in hospital settings, inpatient psychiatric care, jails, emergency services, and Assertive Community Treatment teams. She has also provided education for law enforcement about responding to people in mental health crisis.
That range of settings informs her ability to work with complex needs and crisis-related stress. Karla blends cognitive behavioral tools with acceptance-based skills and emotion-focused strategies. She adapts plans to each person’s goals and practical realities.
Sessions aim to build skills people can use between meetings. She emphasizes respect, dignity, and compassion while celebrating small progress. Karla uses a collaborative style and asks direct questions to clarify what will help most.
She practices in Virginia as an LPC and conducts sessions in English.
How Karla’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions toward what matters, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful thinking patterns and building routines that improve sleep, mood, and stress management.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and name intense emotions and use that understanding to improve how they relate to others. This approach can be helpful for relationship distress and for improving communication around sensitive topics.
Karla works collaboratively to find the right mix of methods for each person. She meets clients where they are, discusses goals, and adjusts the plan based on what is most helpful. Figuring out which approach fits is part of the work together rather than a one-size-fits-all promise.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people connect from home, keep therapy consistent around busy schedules, and use different ways of checking in when needed.
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.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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