About Karin
Karin Fils-Aime is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 22 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, ADHD, and related struggles. Karin speaks plainly and listens closely to figure out what matters most to each person.
Karin has long cared about understanding people and their problems. She blends practical techniques with steady listening. In sessions she looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and works with clients to try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her approach leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which examines the messages people tell themselves and tests whether those thoughts are useful. She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of past harm and reduce its hold on daily life.
Karin helps people facing a wide range of concerns, including relationships, grief, addictions, eating issues, parenting strain, anger, bipolar symptoms, and life transitions. She also pays attention to attachment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and impulse problems. Sessions are offered in English and take place online or by phone.
Karin aims to help people feel better where they are now, using straightforward strategies and a warm listening style.
How Karin's Approaches Work Online
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process past harm in a way that reduces its daily impact. It focuses on understanding the memories and reactions that keep a person stuck and on building skills to respond differently in the present.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple, practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and to build new habits that ease anxiety, depression, or stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Karin will discuss goals and preferences and tailor the plan to each person's needs. That means trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting over time in collaboration with the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or movement is limited, and text-based messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or steady support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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