Karin Gardner, LICSW, LCSW

Karin Gardner is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with seven years of professional experience in New York and Vermont. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and major life changes. Her practice also addresses trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career pressures, and caregiving stress.

Karin uses a person-centered approach that keeps the client’s goals central. She draws on practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns that show up in close relationships.

In sessions she focuses on clear, usable skills alongside conversations about what matters most to each person. That might mean working on thinking patterns, practicing emotion regulation strategies, or naming limits and boundaries in family relationships. The work is collaborative - she helps people notice options and try new ways of coping.

Karin has experience helping people cope with chronic illness, caregiver strain, and family-origin issues. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, body image concerns, domestic violence aftermath, and dissociation. This practical background shapes how she adapts tools to real household stresses.

Her approach blends listening with action. She asks questions, offers tools, and reviews what worked between sessions. People who want straightforward, skills-oriented support for home and relationship strains may find this approach helpful.

How Karin’s approaches translate to online sessions