Karla Lewis, LPC

Karla Lewis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia. She brings a decade of experience as a therapist, advocate, and educator. Karla aims to make the first step toward help feel manageable and supportive.

She works with individual concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, ADHD, and relationship challenges. She also helps with intimacy issues, parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include blended family issues, commitment and communication problems, and concerns related to alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink.

Karla’s clinical background includes work in community treatment teams, emergency services, inpatient psychiatric settings, hospitals, and jails. She has also trained law enforcement on responding to people in mental health crisis. That varied experience informs a practical and down-to-earth approach to therapy.

Her counseling style is described as authentic, personable, and interactive. She emphasizes respect, dignity, and compassion, and looks for small but meaningful wins as therapy progresses. Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation and goals.

Karla blends several approaches to meet a client’s needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ideas alongside client-centered and emotionally focused methods. She will work with each person to shape a plan that fits their life and priorities.

How these approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) aims to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and try small, concrete experiments to change them, which often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding and reshaping emotional patterns that affect close relationships and connection.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and daily life, then suggest techniques and a plan to try. That plan can be adjusted as you learn what helps most, so it remains collaborative and practical.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking, since the biography does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports using worksheets, behavioral experiments, and emotion-focused exercises between meetings so therapy can extend into everyday routines.