About Kari
Kari Regehr is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Alabama. She brings six years of clinical experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, and addiction. Kari aims to create a straightforward and down-to-earth atmosphere where people can talk through hard things and find steady ways forward.
She focuses on practical tools to manage depression, bipolar symptoms, anger, and substance use concerns. Kari also helps with relationship tension, grief, intimacy-related issues, and the emotional work that comes with parenting and family conflict.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with complex presentations such as personality and behavioral disorders. Kari uses several therapy approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Kari listens first, then offers simple strategies to try between sessions.
She helps people build routines, improve communication, and cope with life changes in manageable steps. People who reach out can expect a calm, nonjudgmental presence and practical plans. Kari encourages small, steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Her work is aimed at helping clients feel more capable and less overwhelmed over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit real life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating big life decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear, step-by-step techniques. It often helps with anxiety, low mood, and problems like anger or compulsive habits.
Kari views finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then choose or mix methods that fit those needs. This collaborative process is meant to make therapy more relevant and easier to use in daily life.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging to match practical needs. Video calls are good for full conversations, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is an issue, and messaging formats suit quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and travel while still using evidence-based techniques.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English