- Anxiety management
- Anger concerns
- Parenting support
About Kara
Kara Snodgrass is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with twelve years of experience in counseling and family support work. She has worked in homes and community settings, including roles that involved child welfare, foster care, substance abuse, and crisis work. Kara lists anxiety, parenting, relationship concerns, anger, grief, and compassion fatigue among the issues she helps people with.
Her style is collaborative and client-centered. She follows the lead of the person in the room while offering practical nudges when needed. Sessions focus on concrete steps people can try between meetings, not just talking about feelings.
Kara uses a mix of approaches depending on the situation. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety and anger. She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
Her background in in-home family support guides how she works with parenting stress and family conflict. She is familiar with crisis situations and with helping people look toward reunification or repair when that is an option.
Kara offers messaging, live chat, and phone sessions, and notes some evening and weekend times are available. She usually checks messages on weekdays and asks people to message first if calendar slots seem limited. International clients may be accepted and sessions are conducted in English.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. In practice that means sessions start with what matters most now, and the therapist nudges when a different angle might help. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches small, practical experiments to change them. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers short skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance that many people use when anger or panic feels intense.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kara discusses options with each client and chooses techniques based on goals, needs, and what fits daily life. That collaborative planning helps decide which tools to try first and how to pace sessions.
Confirm the exact session formats before booking since the biography lists messaging, live chat, and phone sessions. Online work can make it easier to fit counseling into a day - shorter check-ins, message-based problem solving between meetings, and phone appointments that do not require video. Those options can help people practice skills in real time and bring specific incidents into sessions for focused work.
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Experience
12+ years
Listed in
North Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Kara works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, parenting and relationship issues among other concerns such as grief and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a collaborative, client-centered approach that follows the client's lead while offering practical suggestions and skills to try between sessions.
How many years has she been practicing?
She has twelve years of combined experience in counseling and family support work.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is an LCMHC licensed in North Carolina and practices with that credential in that state.
Does she work in languages other than English or accept clients internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients.
Which session formats does she offer?
She offers messaging, live chat, and phone sessions; confirm current session options before booking.
How does cost and payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.