Kara Fedore, LCSW

Kara Fedore is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of practice in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and the fallout of trauma and abuse. Kara aims to make therapy feel like a practical appointment in your week where small changes add up over time.

She meets people where they are and adapts her approach to each person. Sessions often include talk therapy plus hands-on strategies to cope with overwhelming feelings and hard moments. She emphasizes clear goals and steps you can try between meetings.

Kara draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Motivational Interviewing, and client-centered methods. She blends these approaches to address things like self-esteem, relationship and family concerns, and life transitions. The choices are practical rather than theoretical and focused on what helps day to day.

Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, attachment challenges, blended family concerns, body image, codependency, and substance use. Kara also supports people working through fertility stress, grief, guilt, isolation, and questions about life purpose.

People who tend to do well with her approach want clear tools and a collaborative stance from their therapist. Kara invites clients to set goals together and to test new ways of coping at a manageable pace. She describes therapy as teamwork toward clearer thinking and steadier days.

How Kara’s approaches translate to online therapy

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives straightforward tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical coping skills and behavior experiments.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication skills. DBT tools help when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships keep getting stuck. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is an approach used to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional charge through guided recall and bilateral stimulation techniques.

Finding the best fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will review current needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which approaches to try first. Clients and therapist check progress and adjust methods together as goals evolve.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face across distance. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a midday break. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, step-by-step skill coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.