Karla Brockman, LCPC

Karla Brockman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 35 years in the mental health field. She presents as warm, interactive, and supportive and focuses on practical steps people can use in day-to-day life.

She most often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, helping people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on other approaches to build an action plan tailored to each person's situation. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused rather than overly technical.

Karla has strong experience from community mental health settings where she worked with a wide range of concerns. Typical issues include anxiety, depression, stress, grief, trauma and problems with self-esteem. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related concerns and matters tied to family of origin and caregiving stress.

Her additional interests include coping with major life changes, compassion fatigue, eating and sleeping problems, and challenges connected to adoption, aging, cancer, or custody and separation. She pays attention to practical coping skills alongside longer-term goals.

People who choose her can expect collaborative planning and homework that builds new skills over time. She helps clients set concrete steps, track progress, and adjust the plan as needed. Karla aims to make therapy usable for everyday life and manageable between sessions.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions include short skill-building exercises, thought records, and practical homework to use between meetings, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing difficult thoughts and choosing actions that match your values. In remote sessions ACT techniques often include mindfulness exercises and values-based goal setting to manage painful feelings while moving toward meaningful life directions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to decide whether CBT, ACT, or a mix of methods best fits a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most for daily functioning and long-term aims.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and accessibility while keeping the focus on practical progress.