About Kari
Kari Fenton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner with 13 years of clinical experience in Nebraska. She focuses on creating a calm, respectful space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. Kari emphasizes clear, everyday language and practical steps that clients can try between sessions.
Kari centers sessions on what each person needs right now. She listens first, then helps clients identify small, useful changes to try.
Background and approach
Sessions often include reflective conversation, skills practice, and work to rebuild safety after painful experiences. She has a long experience supporting people with relationship challenges, family concerns, grief, and issues around intimacy and sexuality. Kari also helps people dealing with compassion fatigue, low self-esteem, and major life shifts.
Her work is inclusive of LGBTQ+ clients and those exploring alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. Kari pays attention to how identity, desire, and cultural context shape feelings and choices. Kari draws on several therapeutic approaches to match each person’s goals.
She blends acceptance-based exercises with narrative work and emotionally focused techniques to help process distress and strengthen connection to values. People who prefer straightforward, compassionate conversation and concrete coping tools often feel comfortable with her style. She supports clients in slowly building resilience and clearer communication so they can move forward with more confidence.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathetic listening and helping the person lead the pace and goals of work, which supports self-esteem and personal growth. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions show up in relationships and helps people learn new ways to connect and respond to one another. Finding the best approach is part of the work. Kari will talk with each client about what feels most useful and will adapt methods based on goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and client try strategies and adjust as needed. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls offer face-to-face conversation for deep emotional work, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on low-tech days, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and communication styles, while allowing therapists to use ACT, client-centered techniques, and EFT tools effectively over distance.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Iowa
- Languages
- English