- Attachment-based methods
- Mindfulness practices
- Narrative and motivational work
About Karey
Karey Thompson is an Ohio LISW (Licensed Independent Social Worker) with 16 years of professional experience. She helps people who are carrying stress, anxiety, relationship strains, family conflict, low self-esteem, and the challenges of life changes. She also works with issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, codependency, and guilt and shame.
She spent much of her career in community mental health, offering both individual and group work. That time gave her experience with a wide range of life situations and perspectives. She has also supported first responders and members of the Ohio Army National Guard, including work around critical incidents.
Her approach centers on relationships and personal meaning. She uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to look at how past bonds shape present feelings. She also draws on existential questions about purpose and on mindfulness practices to help people notice their experience without judgment.
Sessions focus on clear conversation and practical tools. She talks through patterns that keep people stuck, and helps build small, usable changes for daily life. She pays attention to how grief, caregiving stress, blended-family dynamics, and end-of-life concerns affect emotions and choices.
She trained in social work and holds a Master of Social Work from The Ohio State University. She also completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training and has additional work in trauma-sensitive yoga. People meet her for steady, plainspoken support as they sort out guilt, shame, and the fallout of difficult relationships.
How her approaches translate to online work
Her work often draws on attachment-based therapy, which looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating. This approach can help with trust, abandonment concerns, and patterns that repeat in close relationships. Client-centered therapy is another strand she uses; it emphasizes listening closely to a person’s experience and following their pace for change.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away. Those practices can be useful for anxiety, shame, and stress because they offer simple ways to pause and respond rather than react. She treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process and will help figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences.
Confirm the specific session formats before booking since this profile does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel time, allowing a shorter check-in on a break, or helping sessions occur when schedules are tight. The practical aim is to make therapy more manageable while focusing on relationship patterns, guilt and shame, and tools for everyday coping.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
16+ years
Listed in
Ohio
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family problems, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and related issues like guilt and shame.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She uses relationship-focused and client-centered approaches, with mindfulness and existential elements to help people notice patterns and consider meaning.
How much experience does she have?
She has 16 years of clinical experience, including many years in community mental health and work with first responders and the Ohio Army National Guard.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LISW (Licensed Independent Social Worker) licensed in Ohio and practices out of Ohio.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats does she provide?
Confirm the current session options before booking, as the profile does not list specific formats.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin sessions with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.