Location
Offers online therapy
About
If you have spent time near the ocean, or any wild place really, you may have had the experience of returning again and again to the same place to find it utterly different each time. Therapy is like this. Together, we return again and again to experiences, emotions, themes, patterns, and images each time allowing for exploration of the different nuances, tones, and textures of your life. As a depth-oriented psychotherapist, I aid clients in deepening their understanding of and creating meaning in their lives to affect personal change.
Together, we will increase awareness, bring unconscious patterns to light, build a greater understanding of yourself, heal and strengthen relationships, calm anxieties, and communicate effectively. My job is to build trust, listen with a non-judgmental and affirming ear, and offer you support and resources.
Please reach out with questions or to see if we are a good fit.
Call or Email Kara Petersen for a free 15 minute consultation now - (805) 303-2809
Finances
- Cost per Session: $150 - $190
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 3 Years
- Prelicense: California / 126471
- School: Pacifica Graduate Institute
- Year Graduated: 2021
- Supervisor: Ben Heilveil
- Supervisor License: California / 107010
Endorsements
"I strongly recommend Kara's clinical work for her humor, intelligence, resourcefulness, and compassion."
Location
Offers online therapy
Specialties
- Child
- Anxiety
- Life Transitions
Issues
- Behavioral Issues
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Domestic Violence
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Intellectual Disability
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal Ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
Mental Health
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Thinking Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Age
- Adults
- Teen
- Preteen
- Children (6 to 10)
Communities
- Body Positivity
- Gay Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Single Mother
- Transgender Allied
- Vegan Allied
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Experiential Therapy
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Gestalt
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Jungian
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural
- Person-Centered
- Play Therapy
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Somatic
- Strength-Based
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Family
- Group
Last Modified: 16 Jun 2022
(805) 303-2809