Works with
How Karin works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Years in practice
- 22
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Karin
Karin Fils-Aime is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage strong emotions and get clearer control over day-to-day stress. She focuses on practical steps so clients can feel steadier in the present. Many people come to her for anger, anxiety, depression, grief, or life changes.
She uses straightforward techniques that link thoughts and feelings. In sessions she helps clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns and test different ways of responding.
Background and approach
That work is useful for everyday stress, impulsivity, and problems that come from trauma or long-term worry. Karin brings 22 years of clinical experience in Pennsylvania to her practice. Her background includes work with issues such as addiction, ADHD, parenting strain, family conflict, and chronic illness.
She also supports people dealing with attachment concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and first responder stress. Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with trauma-focused methods when needed. That means she helps clients learn new coping skills, practice changes in how they think, and process difficult events at a pace that feels right.
Sessions aim to be practical and goal-oriented while honoring each person’s history. Karin likes to keep therapy down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps people try concrete strategies that fit their life.
Clients leave with clear next steps they can try between meetings.
What Karin works with
Everything Karin lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Karin's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Approaches Karin lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How CBT and Trauma-Focused Care Work Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot how thoughts lead to feelings and actions. It uses short exercises and practice tasks to change unhelpful thinking and build more helpful habits. This approach can help with anger, anxiety, depression, and impulsive reactions.Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on processing difficult events in a careful way. It combines skills for feeling steadier with space to talk through past hurts at a pace the client chooses. That approach is often helpful for people with trauma, abuse histories, or strong emotional reactions tied to past events.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose what fits best based on their goals and comfort. Plans can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and reading nonverbal cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible for work schedules, caregiving duties, and travel.
Questions people ask about Karin
What kinds of concerns does Karin address?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, addictions, ADHD, bipolar concerns, relationship and family issues, eating concerns, and coping with major life changes.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different coping strategies.
How long has she been practicing?
She brings 22 years of clinical experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LPC credential and provides services from Pennsylvania.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can be by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.