About Karin
Dr. Karin Celosse welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She emphasizes practical steps and works with each person to find clear, doable ways to manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns.
Karin speaks English and Swedish and practices as a CA Psychologist 29839 in California. She approaches therapy from a client-centered, strengths-based perspective. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and build actions that match their values. Karin has seven years of clinical experience and has worked in community mental health and forensic settings.
Before becoming a psychologist she spent many years as a medic and field training officer in emergency medical services, which shaped her understanding of trauma and stressful work environments. People often come to her for anxiety, stress, depression, grief, phobias, sleep and eating concerns, addiction, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and LGBTQ issues.
She also helps with abandonment, attachment challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, chronic pain, and substance use issues. Therapy is collaborative and tailored. Karin listens, asks practical questions, and offers guidance or gentle challenges when useful.
She can use psychological testing when it will help clarify symptoms and next steps. Sessions are offered through a range of online formats. To get started, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled to fit both lives.
How Karin’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take small actions that align with their values. It is useful for anxiety, chronic stress, and situations where avoidance has become a problem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life behavior changes to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s goals and experience at the center of sessions, emphasizing empathetic listening and supporting self-directed change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist uses a collaborative process to decide which methods fit best for each person’s goals and preferences. Some weeks may emphasize ACT exercises, other times practical CBT tasks or open exploration in a client-centered way, and adjustments happen as progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face interaction for deeper work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Swedish
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