Kara Levine, LCSW

Kara Levine is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana with 11 years of practice. She earned a Master of Social Work from Tulane University with a concentration in disaster mental health. Kara focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and trauma. She aims to meet people where they are and make starting therapy feel manageable.

Her work has included supporting children, adolescents, and adults through loss and traumatic events. She has also helped children facing chronic and terminal illness and the family members affected by those illnesses. Those experiences shaped her attention to how one person’s health can change daily life for everyone around them.

Kara uses evidence-based approaches to address practical problems that show up day to day. She adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs instead of following a one-size-fits-all script. Sessions focus on steps that can ease symptoms and improve functioning between meetings.

She describes therapy as a team effort and emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions. Kara works collaboratively to set goals and measure small changes over time. She encourages people to take the first step and recognizes that asking for help takes courage.

For people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness, life transitions, or mood concerns, Kara brings steady support and practical tools. If someone wants to explore approaches for anxiety, trauma, or coping with major life changes, she will tailor the work to their situation.

How her therapeutic approaches translate to online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns and focuses on practical skill-building and short-term strategies.

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is an approach used to address traumatic memories by working with the way memories are processed. It can reduce the intensity of trauma-related reactions and help people feel less overwhelmed by past events.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether CBT, EMDR, or another method fits best. That choice depends on personal goals, current challenges, and how the person prefers to work, and it may change over time.

Confirm current session formats before booking, as the available online options are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing meetings during lunch breaks or between errands. They also let people choose quieter surroundings or shorter check-ins when that works better. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to virtual sessions so practical tools and trauma-focused work continue even when meeting remotely.