About Karla
Karla Brockman greets people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She writes clear, straightforward plans and helps clients take practical steps toward better daily functioning. Karla is a KS LCPC with 35 years of experience in counseling and mental health settings.
She spent much of her career in community mental health. There she supported people facing depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, stress, and related concerns. Karla focuses on real-life problems and everyday coping rather than abstract theory.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and solution-focused ideas when those approaches fit a person’s goals. Motivational Interviewing is used to clarify readiness and strengthen commitment to change.
Karla aims for a warm, interactive, and collaborative tone. She works with each person to build an action plan that matches their needs and pace. Short-term goals and practical tools are emphasized so progress can be noticed between sessions.
Her work covers many concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, career matters, trauma and abuse, grief, and health-related life changes. Sessions are conducted in English and scheduled around client needs in Kansas.
Approaches that guide online work
Karla commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online practice. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily routines. ACT emphasizes noticing difficult thoughts and committing to actions that match a person's values, which can help with long-term acceptance and meaning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karla will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan if something isn't working well for the client's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or brief progress notes. These options aim to make it easier to fit consistent care into everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English