Karla Lewis , LPC

Karla Lewis is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 10 years of experience serving people across a variety of clinical and community settings in Virginia. She has supported individuals facing depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, major life changes, trauma, and ADHD, drawing on work in Assertive Community Treatment teams, emergency services, inpatient psychiatric facilities, hospitals, and jails. She has also provided training to law enforcement on responding to people in mental health crisis.

Her counseling style is authentic, personable, and interactive, grounded in respect, dignity, and compassion while also celebrating both large and small steps forward. She combines practical, evidence-informed methods such as cognitive-behavioral techniques, rational emotive behavioral ideas, solution-focused strategies, and reality-based counseling to shape individualized plans. These methods are adapted to each person so that sessions align with unique strengths, challenges, and goals.

Karla holds LPC and NCC credentials - LPC indicates a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia and NCC is a national counseling certification - and brings experience as a therapist, advocate, and educator to her work. She aims to support and empower people who are ready to take steps toward meaningful change, offering collaborative guidance as they pursue greater wellbeing.

Therapeutic Approaches Used in Online Sessions

Karla Lewis integrates several proven approaches to guide online work in ways that fit individual needs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and supports living in line with personal values - it can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence one another and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can aid with depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes a warm, nonjudgmental relationship and supports people in exploring their experience at their own pace, which is useful for building self-esteem, coping with identity or relationship issues, and navigating change.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Karla collaborates with each person to identify which methods and techniques best match their goals, preferences, and circumstances, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds. This collaborative stance helps ensure therapy feels relevant and respectful.

Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and reach help from home or other convenient locations. These options offer flexibility in timing and communication style, so people can engage in ways that suit their life while working with a licensed professional toward meaningful change.