About Kara
Kara Jakubec is a Licensed Professional Counselor who practices in Texas. She draws on five years of direct counseling experience to help people facing anxiety, depression, addiction-related challenges, and life transitions. She speaks English and uses straightforward, goal-focused work in sessions.
Kara began her career in roles across mental health administration and consultation before moving into clinical counseling. That background gives her practical insight into systems that affect care, and helps when talking through parenting concerns or substance use recovery.
Background and approach
She also has experience supporting people through trauma, grief, anger, and struggles with self-esteem and intimacy. Her style centers on listening first and then outlining clear steps forward. Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical, with attention to what is getting in the way of change.
She works to help clients set goals, try concrete strategies, and track what is helpful over time. Kara often focuses on motivation and getting unstuck. She helps people clarify values, set achievable actions, and build routines that support recovery and wellbeing.
For parents, she offers guidance to understand and support a child during difficult periods while remaining focused on individual therapy goals. In the room she blends person-centered care with cognitive and reality-based ideas. That means clients guide the priorities while Kara offers tools to reframe unhelpful thoughts and test realistic steps.
The overall aim is clearer direction, manageable plans, and steady progress toward the life someone wants.
How evidence-based methods translate to online therapy
Person-centered work focuses on the client's priorities and values. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, helps a person name goals, and supports decisions that fit their life. This approach is useful for people who want a collaborative plan rather than a strict protocol.Cognitive-based techniques involve identifying and gently challenging unhelpful thoughts. Clients learn simple exercises to test those thoughts and replace them with more balanced ways of thinking. This is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and motivation-related problems.
Reality-based techniques emphasize practical action steps and problem solving. The work targets what someone can change now, plans concrete behaviors, and measures small progress toward bigger goals. This approach supports change in areas like substance use, parenting challenges, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right fit is part of the process. Kara will work together with each person to choose which methods make sense based on goals, comfort, and how they respond in early sessions. That shared decision-making helps tailor the plan as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging lets someone update progress or ask quick questions between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, childcare, or travel while keeping a steady course of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English