Kara Finamore, LCSW-C

Kara Finamore is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and trauma. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Kara adapts conversations and treatment to fit what each person needs. She supports people through grief, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, and substance-related problems. She also helps with issues tied to identity, including LGBT-related concerns, and with mood struggles like depression. Her practice includes attention to family problems, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, and major life transitions. Kara has worked with people facing fertility challenges, postpartum depression, and obsessive-compulsive concerns. She also has experience with domestic violence, dependent personality patterns, and first responder stress. Kara aims to empower people to make meaningful changes. She listens, asks clear questions, and helps set practical steps for everyday life. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person’s goals. People who appreciate straightforward, caring conversation and a focus on real-life solutions often find this approach helpful. Kara invites those who are ready to start a change to take a first step and explore what therapy could look like for them.

Therapeutic approaches and what online work can look like

Many evidence-based techniques aim to reduce symptoms and restore daily functioning. One common approach focuses on skills for managing stress and anxiety by teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step coping strategies that help during high‑stress moments. This approach is practical and useful for worry, panic, and overwhelming emotions.

Another helpful method emphasizes processing trauma and difficult experiences through careful, paced conversation and gradual exposure to upsetting memories. It supports people who are coping with abuse, past injuries, or repeated traumatic stress by helping them rebuild a sense of safety and control over reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose and adjust methods based on their goals, concerns, and day-to-day needs. This makes the plan feel personal and manageable rather than one-size-fits-all.

For practical matters, confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make therapy easier to fit into busy lives, reduce travel time, and allow quicker check-ins on a hectic day. It can also let someone choose session pacing and communication that match their routine, such as shorter check-ins or longer weekly sessions, depending on what works best.