Kara Kolpak
Kara Kolpak
I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and have an array of expertise with varying age groups. I am a mom of 3 and still learning! It is busy and comes with sacrifices and challenges but fun and filled with opportunities to connect that many of us cannot slow down our lives to cue in on. I support and guide clients with many needs or struggles including, anxiety, depression, life transitions, perinatal needs, parenting styles, bonding with your baby, self-confidence, building esteem and family issues.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In our first session I will try to get to know you a little better and overall would like to know why now in your life makes coming to therapy the right time. How can I support you reach a goal.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I am able to provide support to different types of people and make effort in learning what type of support best helps propel them forward because everyone is different and respond differently to approaches and guidance. Finding the right type of approach specific to the individual I am working with is important in the therapy and growth process.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
Whether you are looking for a brief solution oriented therapy experience, are working through a life transition, want to learn how to think more positively or to live your life with more self worth and purpose, I may be a good fit for you. I support and guide clients with many needs or struggles including, anxiety, depression, life transitions, perinatal needs, parenting styles, bonding with your baby, self-confidence, building esteem and family issues.
About Kara Kolpak
Kara Kolpak offers therapy covered by Husky Health and Medicaid in Connecticut.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Our thoughts can impact our behaviors and vice versa. Learning the basics of your own thought patterns and what you notice about them and whether you want to start to make changes to them is probably the first step to ultimately having more control over your life. If you want to explore this more with me, we will talk about what you want to see change and how it relates to your thoughts and behaviors.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
If you are the type of person that is in the actions stages of a life transition, taking charge of areas of your life that need a major change, or maybe you simply do not know where to turn or what to change first, solution -focused approaches are so highly sought after, effective and sometimes fast acting because you learn how to be your own change agent! I would like to work with you so you can think more solution oriented because there is always a safe and positive way around, over or through barriers to the changes you want.
Trauma-Focused CBT
Sometimes trauma can be so far reaching on its impact on us especially if we re-experience it over again with cognitions that we have not learned how to re-frame, extract meaning from or simply find a way to shut them off. Whether it is past trauma, a traumatic loss, or something in your daily life giving you a trauma response, coping with trauma and moving through it is highly challenging. With adults I can assist you in the basics of learning how much power the experience or event has over you, you will learn how to manage its fallout in your daily life to gain momentum onward. In young children working through trauma looks much different and happens typically through play interventions with a caregivers guidance and assistance in assessing its impact on the child's life with a trained practitioner- this is done better in person.
Adlerian
Using an Adlerian approach means we will look at how connected you are with others in your life, how you live your life and if it is with purpose and self worth. What strategies do you employ during life changes OR do you want to learn how to make changes when needed in your life? Do you want to have more of a positive outlook and be more in charge of your future and learn how to tap into your confidence? If so, this is a really effective approach!
Attachment-based
Forming secure attachments as a child fosters stable mental health, positive peer relationships and resilience and growth into an independent and secure adult. We form many attachments throughout our life and they aren't necessarily with biological family. If disrupted and you feel you were impacted in some way, attachments can be formed again in new secure ways with others in your life! There is hope and healing in knowing that alone. Think about your life story and if you would like to explore this some more!