Kara Snodgrass , LCMHC

Kara Snodgrass is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 12 years of experience in counseling and family support. She began her career as a family support worker for five years, providing in-home services to children and families and gaining hands-on experience with child protective services, foster care, substance abuse, and crisis intervention aimed at reunification when possible.

Over the years Kara has worked with a broad range of concerns, with a particular focus on anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting difficulties, and stress management. Her clinical interests also include grief, depression, ADHD, compassion fatigue, anger, and issues related to control, guilt and shame, impulsivity, panic, pregnancy and childbirth, and women's health. She tailors interventions to each person's needs and draws on multiple evidence-based methods to support change.

Kara practices from a collaborative, client-centered stance, centering the client's experience and priorities while offering gentle guidance and practical skills when appropriate. She aims to create an empathetic space where clients can explore goals, build coping strategies, and work through everyday emotions and problem solving. Kara offers messaging, live chat, and phone sessions with limited evening and weekend availability, and typically reviews messages each weekday. Prospective clients are encouraged to message first if calendar times do not reflect full availability.

Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy

Kara integrates several practical approaches that adapt well to remote care. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client's perspective, offering empathy, active listening, and support to help people explore their values and goals - this approach is often helpful for relationship concerns, self esteem, and parenting challenges.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It provides concrete tools for managing anxiety, panic symptoms, stress, and depressive patterns through skill building and structured practice.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. These tools can be especially useful for impulsivity, strong emotional reactions, anger, and improving communication in relationships.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Kara will work with each person to select and adjust methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences, blending techniques as appropriate to support progress.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for busy schedules, parenting responsibilities, travel, or distance. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to practice new skills between sessions while working with licensed professionals and therapists trained in remote formats.