Kara Carola, LPC

Kara Carola is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 14 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults through a wide range of life challenges. She brings a strengths-based, client-centered, and solution-focused approach to counseling, helping people identify their existing resources and use them to create meaningful change. As an LPC - a licensed clinician trained to provide professional counseling services - she combines practical tools with empathic listening to address concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family challenges, grief, eating concerns, anger, career questions, and coping with life transitions.

Kara emphasizes building a solid therapeutic rapport and aims to create a trusting, positive environment where clients feel understood and able to share their stories. Colleagues and clients have noted her genuineness and positive energy, qualities she uses to foster connection and engagement. Treatment planning highlights individual strengths and sets clear, actionable goals while drawing from a range of clinical methods suited to each person’s needs, including client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based approaches, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic techniques, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused work.

Her practice also attends to related concerns such as adoption and foster care, guilt and shame, life purpose and midlife transitions, financial stress, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety. Kara seeks to help clients gain insight and turn that insight into practical steps toward improved well-being and functioning.