Kara Finamore

Kara Finamore is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people facing grief, addiction, parenting strain, career uncertainty, and coping with life changes.

Kara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts her approach to each person. Sessions are meant to be practical and focused on real-life problems. She aims to listen without judgment and to help clients notice patterns that get in the way of feeling better.

Her work often looks at how difficult events and relationships affect daily routines and emotions. She helps people create small, achievable steps toward change. That can mean building new coping skills, practicing different ways of communicating, or developing plans for managing urges or obsessive thoughts.

Kara also brings attention to specific concerns such as multicultural issues, postpartum depression, fertility stress, first responder challenges, and end-of-life or hospice situations. She can support people dealing with dependent personality patterns, domestic violence impacts, family problems, or obsessive-compulsive struggles.

Conversations with Kara are collaborative. She will tailor discussion and any treatment plan to the person across sessions. To start, people complete a short intake and then schedule sessions based on availability.

How evidence-based methods translate to online care

Many of Kara's interventions come from standard, evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and practical change. One common approach teaches coping skills and problem-solving to reduce anxiety and manage stress; it helps people break problems into manageable steps and try new behaviors. Another approach works on thinking patterns and how they affect feelings and actions, helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and test different perspectives to ease distress.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will talk about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then try methods that fit those priorities. Adjustments can be made as work progresses so the plan stays useful and realistic.

If you prefer online sessions, please confirm the current session formats before booking since specific formats were not listed in the source material. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people choose a setting that feels calm. Licensed professionals can use virtual work to maintain regular contact and practice skills between meetings, which supports steady progress.