Kari Perez

Kari Perez is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Maryland. She brings ten years of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth approach to common concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, and issues around eating and body image. Kari focuses on helping people build skills, feel more motivated, and improve everyday functioning.

She trained at Loyola University, earning a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology in 2011. Early in her career she worked four years in a long-term residential program supporting adults with co-occurring addiction and mental health concerns. That work gave her a lot of hands-on experience with addiction, mood disorders, and life-skill development.

She has also provided outpatient care both in person and virtually, including work with adults, children, and teenagers. Across these settings she developed strength in treating stress, self-esteem struggles, grief, postpartum mood concerns, ADHD, and parenting challenges. Eating and body-image issues are listed among her areas of focus.

Kari uses a multi-modal, client-centered stance. She treats the person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to set goals. Techniques come from several approaches so strategies are tailored to what a client needs in the moment.

Sessions emphasize practical steps and skill building. Kari aims to help people develop clearer communication, healthier habits, and more stable moods. She works with clients who want to become more resilient and move toward the life they want.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Client-centered therapy puts the client’s experience first and focuses on listening and partnership. It helps when someone wants a respectful, collaborative space to set goals and make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, mood, and unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills, which can be useful for strong mood swings, intense stress, and problems with impulsive behaviors.

Finding the best approach is part of the process. Kari will work together with each client to decide which methods feel most helpful. That may mean trying strategies from more than one approach and adjusting as goals evolve.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people continue care when circumstances change. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, DBT, and client-centered techniques to remote sessions so people still learn skills and practice them between meetings.