Karyn Borrego, LPC

Karyn Borrego is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical therapy for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and life changes. She brings seven years of experience helping people untangle painful feelings and find clearer ways to cope.

Her sessions often use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift patterns that keep problems stuck. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered approaches to help people accept hard feelings while choosing actions that match their values.

Karyn works with adults facing a range of concerns such as panic attacks, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and recovery from sexual assault or domestic violence. She also supports people dealing with divorce, control issues, codependency, and questions about life purpose and midlife change.

In practice she focuses on building skills people can use between sessions. That can mean learning grounding and distress-tolerance techniques, practicing new ways to handle conflict, or trying behavioral experiments to test fearful predictions. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs.

She provides services from Arizona and holds an Arizona LPC credential. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.

How CBT and ACT translate to online care

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavioral changes. Online sessions can guide someone through thought records, activity planning, and short behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful feelings without getting overwhelmed and then choose actions that match their values. In remote work this often means learning mindfulness practices, values clarification exercises, and simple in-the-moment coping strategies that can be practiced between contacts.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan as needed so the work fits the person's life and priorities.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a closer face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or transportation constraints.