About Karin
Karin Fils-Aime is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Pennsylvania. She aims to meet people where they are and help them manage stress, anxiety, trauma, mood struggles, and life changes. Her style is straightforward and practical, focused on small steps that make daily life easier.
Karin began wanting to support others from a young age and has built two decades of experience into a calm, steady approach. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at how thoughts shape feelings and actions.
Background and approach
She also works with trauma-focused methods when past hurt is getting in the way of moving forward. Sessions are conversational and goal oriented. Karin listens first, then suggests specific ideas to try between sessions.
Those tools can include simple thought checks, behavior experiments, and ways to cope during hard moments. She helps people dealing with a wide range of concerns such as ADHD, addictions, grief, relationship and family issues, parenting strain, chronic pain or illness, and problems with impulsivity or anger.
Karin also supports people facing adoption or attachment questions, caregiver stress, and recovery from domestic violence. With 22 years of practice as an LPC, Karin combines experience with a down-to-earth attitude. She focuses on practical gains people can notice in daily life.
If someone wants clear strategies and a compassionate listener, Karin offers both.
How Karin’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It breaks problems into small parts so clients can test new ways of thinking and acting and see real results in daily life.Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding how past hurts affect current reactions and relationships. It offers techniques to process painful memories and to develop coping skills that reduce symptoms linked to trauma.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Karin will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. She and the client will decide together whether to emphasize CBT, trauma work, or a mix of strategies based on those conversations.
Online sessions offer flexibility across several formats. Video calls let people use visual cues and share worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good option when connections are easier without video. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress without long commutes.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English