About Kari
Kari Trempler is a licensed professional counselor with more than 23 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Kari also supports people dealing with parenting strain, adoption and foster care questions, ADHD, and body image or eating-related issues.
Her style is direct and nonjudgmental. She aims to meet people where they are and walk alongside them. Sessions focus on small, practical steps and tools that can be used between meetings.
Background and approach
Kari combines several approaches to match each person’s needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change daily habits. Attachment-based ideas guide work on connection and trust.
Trauma-focused methods, including EMDR where appropriate, are used for processing painful memories. In sessions she centers the person’s goals. The client leads and Kari offers structure, feedback, and skills.
She prioritizes showing acceptance while helping people practice new ways of coping and relating. People who come to Kari can expect clear, down-to-earth conversation. She offers practical strategies for sleep, stress, anger, and impulse control as well as help rebuilding relationships and handling life changes.
Her long experience in Missouri informs a steady, experienced presence in the room.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to strengthen trust, communication, and emotional safety in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior. In video or chat sessions it can include identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavioral experiments, and practicing new routines between meetings. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories; when appropriate, elements of trauma processing can be adapted for online sessions in ways the therapist and client agree on.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, history, and comfort level. That plan can change over time as needs shift and progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, tracking mood, or getting quick coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills in day-to-day life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English