About Kari
Kari Wright is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 20 years of experience who helps people navigate hard moments. She welcomes practical conversations about grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Kari aims to make therapy straightforward and collaborative so people feel heard and understood.
Kari uses clear techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. She also draws on motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and on EMDR for processing distressing memories when appropriate.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and paced to the client's needs. Parents and adults often come for help with stress, sleep, eating, relationship and intimacy worries, or career strain. Kari also supports people facing ADHD, chronic illness, caregiving burden, and life transitions like loss or adoption-related concerns.
She listens for what matters most and focuses on manageable steps. In the room she checks understanding, offers validation, and gives concrete feedback. She balances short-term strategies with attention to deeper patterns that can keep problems repeating.
Clients take part in planning goals and choosing techniques that fit their daily life. Kari practices in Michigan and conducts sessions in English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She encourages questions about approach and fit before starting work together.
How specific approaches translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and trying practical changes. It can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and behavior habits by breaking problems into small, testable steps.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, involves guided processing of distressing memories to reduce their intensity. It is often used for trauma and strong emotional reactions and is delivered in a structured, paced way online or by phone.
Motivational interviewing is a short-term conversational method that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about starting something different, like addressing substance use or making health-related shifts.
Choosing an approach is a team decision. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative testing helps identify what feels most helpful for each person.
Online therapy allows the same therapeutic work through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotional work. Phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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