About Kara
Dr. Kara Richardson-Cline is a Minnesota licensed psychologist with eight years of professional experience. She combines practical therapy methods with a straightforward focus on what each person wants to change.
She offers help for common concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, sleep problems, grief, and coping with life changes. Her background includes graduate work and a PhD from the University of North Dakota and additional training in rural psychology. She has worked in medical settings and has supervised other mental health providers, which shaped her familiarity with complex health and life issues.
Background and approach
This experience informs how she sees the whole picture around a person’s distress. Dr. Richardson-Cline uses an integrated, client-centered approach.
Sessions focus on building strong therapeutic connections, understanding attachment patterns, and teaching skills to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She tailors tools to match a person’s goals rather than applying one fixed method. She also works with challenges related to ADHD, addictions, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and body image.
People who have faced abandonment, adoption or foster care issues, or who cope with cancer and chronic pain may find this background relevant. Outside work she enjoys being outdoors and spending time with family and her two dogs, who sometimes appear during video sessions. She describes online therapy as a useful option for people aiming for steady, practical progress.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape emotional patterns. It helps people understand connection styles and how those patterns affect current relationships and self-worth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches specific skills to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. It is practical work that can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change mood over time. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus, which can help with stress, anger, and grief.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to one set method.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging are useful for ongoing support, quick skill reminders, and for people who prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, medical routines, or different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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