About Karina
Karina Cooper is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, rebuild self-esteem, and find direction with work and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Her approach is direct and respectful, with an emphasis on practical steps that fit each person's life. She works with people facing depressive symptoms and difficulties with motivation.
Communication problems and impulsivity are common topics in sessions, as are social anxiety and phobia. Conversations are tailored so clients leave with small, concrete actions they can try between meetings.
Karina adapts her style to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. She listens for strengths and blocks, then partners with clients to set clear, achievable goals.
Progress is tracked in simple ways so change feels visible and manageable. Her work often centers on improving daily routines, building confidence in stressful situations, and creating better patterns in relationships and at work.
Sessions mix talking, practical problem solving, and skill practice aimed at real-life situations. Karina speaks English and Spanish.
People who choose to work with her can expect calm, straightforward guidance and a focus on what can be done now to make things feel better.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Karina uses straightforward, evidence-based techniques to address common problems people bring to therapy. Cognitive approaches focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and replacing them with more balanced thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. Skills-based behavioral work emphasizes small, repeatable actions - like breaking tasks into steps or practicing exposure - to build confidence and reduce avoidance.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Karina will listen to goals and try methods that match the person’s needs and preferences. She adjusts recommendations based on what is helping and what feels realistic in daily life, so the plan changes as progress happens.
Online therapy makes these approaches flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper skill practice. Phone sessions work well for quick check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief coaching, between-session check-ins, and quick problem solving during busy days. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, and other commitments while using the same practical techniques as in-person work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Impulsivity
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish