Karen Bradt
Compassionate, action-oriented trauma-informed care
LCSW Florida
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Karen
Karen Bradt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Florida with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people managing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addictions, sleep difficulties, bipolar symptoms, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Karen also works with issues such as attachment and abandonment, communication problems, codependency, caregiver stress, dissociation, domestic violence, and other family-of-origin or interpersonal challenges. Her approach blends practical education about how trauma and stress affect the brain with actionable tools clients can practice between sessions.
She uses a mix of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-informed work, client-centered techniques, dialectical behavior therapy skills, and hypnotherapy where appropriate, emphasizing experimentation with small steps to change habitual reactions. Karen places value on the connection between physical activity and mental health and often encourages lifestyle adjustments that support emotional regulation.
Sessions typically begin by clarifying goals and understanding the client's history, followed by teaching targeted strategies and adapting them based on what works. The therapist frames clients as experts on their own lives while offering guidance, psychoeducation, and practical interventions to help rewire responses to triggers and build new coping patterns.
Online approaches that blend skills, insight, and action
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and replaces them with practical strategies and behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change reactions to stressful situations. Attachment-Based Therapy explores early relational patterns and how they influence current relationships, offering a pathway to greater security in connections and clearer communication. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration so that the client's own goals and values guide the pace and focus of work.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will begin by learning about a client's goals, history, and preferences and then recommend a combination of methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are expected; interventions are tried and adapted together until they resonate with the client and produce usable skills.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to access sessions around work, caregiving, or mobility constraints. These formats support ongoing skill practice and check-ins between longer sessions, allowing therapy to fit into daily life while still focusing on practical tools and gradual change.
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Experience
15+ years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English