About Karla
Karla Garcia-Velez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She uses a practical mix of body-aware and talk-based methods to help people feel steadier and more in control. Karla works in Colorado and offers sessions in English and Spanish.
She combines somatic approaches with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address both physical reactions and thought patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include grounding techniques, simple skills for handling difficult emotions, and steps to change unhelpful thinking. The work is paced to match each person’s needs and readiness. Karla has seven years of clinical experience as an LCSW and draws on that background to support people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness, addiction, or life changes.
She also helps with issues like self-esteem, career decisions, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue. Her approach pays attention to body sensations as part of how problems show up. Therapy can include short-term skill building or longer work on patterns that have lasted years.
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Costs vary by location and availability and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, prospective clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on the therapist’s availability.
How somatic work and skills-based therapies translate online
Somatic work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. Online sessions may include guided grounding, breath work, and noticing body sensations to reduce physical tension. These methods can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and feeling overwhelmed.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values. It uses mindfulness and committed action to address avoidance and unhelpful thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete strategies to change thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to depression or anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide whether somatic practices, ACT, CBT, or a blend best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to continue work between appointments. The variety of formats supports flexible, ongoing care from licensed professionals regardless of where someone is in Colorado.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English, Spanish