Kara Snodgrass , LCMHC

Kara Snodgrass is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who brings years of hands-on experience working with individuals and families. Her background includes five years as a family support worker and extensive in-home work addressing substance abuse, child protective services involvement, foster care, and crisis situations with a focus on reunification when possible. She has supported people facing a wide range of concerns, with particular attention to anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting struggles, and stress-related issues.

Kara uses a collaborative, client-centered stance that emphasizes following the client’s lead while offering gentle guidance when helpful. She draws on a variety of interventions tailored to each person’s needs and goals, and she approaches work with empathy and the assumption that most people are struggling in one area or another. Her practice includes messaging, live chat, and phone sessions, with limited evening and weekend availability. Kara typically checks messages each day, five days per week, and notes that calendar listings may not always reflect her full availability, so she encourages prospective clients to reach out by message to confirm options.

Throughout her practice Kara focuses on helping clients navigate anxiety, depression, family and relationship issues, parenting concerns, ADHD, grief, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue, among other areas. Her approach aims to create a supportive, practical space where clients can address immediate concerns and work toward meaningful change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Kara commonly integrates Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into her work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client’s lead and supports personal insight and growth - it is well suited for issues like self-esteem, relationship concerns, and parenting stress. CBT is a structured approach that helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it useful for anxiety, panic, depression, and patterns of impulsivity.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when appropriate to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness - these tools can be helpful for managing intense emotions, anger, and impulsivity. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process: Kara works with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Kara is offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing flexibility around work, family, and daily life. These options make it easier to access consistent support, fit sessions into a busy schedule, and continue progress between appointments through messaging and real-time check-ins with a licensed professional.