- Client-Centered Therapy
- CBT techniques
- Emotionally-Focused work
About Karen
Karen Cino is a Florida licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with seven years of professional experience. She helps people who are dealing with addictions, relationship strain, low self-esteem, career stress, depression, anxiety, and related concerns such as trauma and grief.
She focuses on clear, practical conversations. Sessions are a place to talk things through, name patterns, and try small changes that can feel doable. She uses plain language and aims to make therapeutic ideas easy to apply between meetings.
Her background includes work with people facing a range of emotional and behavioral challenges, including ADHD, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and intimacy issues. She also assists those navigating life events such as adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, aging-related matters, and cancer-related stress.
Clinically, Karen draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused work to support shifts in thinking, feeling, and interaction. That mix lets her help with both inner distress and relationship patterns that keep problems repeating.
Sessions are intended to be collaborative. The first meetings typically clarify goals and identify what feels most urgent. From there she and the client decide which strategies to try and how to pace the work so it fits everyday life.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the client. Online, this looks like sessions that begin with open conversation about immediate concerns and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. That can include homework, thought records, and stepwise experiments that fit into daily life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people recognize and name their feelings and patterns in relationships, aiming to shift how they respond to partners and close others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. The approach can change over time based on what is most useful and feasible for the client.
Confirm available session formats before booking. When arranged online, therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to use interventions between meetings, like guided homework or short check-ins. Some formats may be better for quieter, longer conversations while others suit brief updates or phone-friendly check-ins, so check the current options when you schedule.
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Experience
7+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with issues such as addictions, relationship problems, low self-esteem, career stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and related concerns like ADHD and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and conversational, using client-centered listening along with cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused techniques to address thoughts, feelings, and interaction patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has seven years of professional work experience as a licensed clinical social worker.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Florida LCSW and practices from Florida.
Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
She accepts international clients.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Choose the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is for adults and is not emergency care, mediation or legal advice. If you or a child are in danger, use the emergency numbers. Find someone else by name.