- Relationship focus
- Practical strategies
- Trauma-informed care
About Kari
Kari Hidalgo is a licensed marriage and family therapist with ten years of direct counseling experience. She practices in California and has provided tele-mental-health services for more than five years. Kari aims to help people find steadier footing during stressful or painful life moments.
Kari works with individuals and couples on relationship and parenting concerns. She helps people facing trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, stress, and compassion fatigue. Workplace issues, career questions, and identity-focused concerns such as LGBT matters are also part of her practice.
Her sessions focus on listening, practical problem solving, and building day-to-day skills. She uses approaches that encourage clients to identify healthy boundaries, try small changes, and notice what works. Sessions include support for self-care, forgiveness, and repairing communication patterns.
Kari draws on Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, Solution-Focused, and Trauma-Focused approaches to shape treatment plans. She combines short-term strategies for urgent problems with longer work on life purpose, self-esteem, and relationship patterns. Her experience includes helping people through postpartum challenges and midlife transitions.
As a wife and mother of four, Kari understands the demands of juggling family and work life. She offers a steady, hopeful presence and aims to be a consistent support for as long as needed. Prospective clients in California can expect practical guidance and a collaborative approach to change.
How Kari’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and honoring each person’s experience. Kari uses this approach to help people feel heard, to clarify goals, and to shape the pace of work around what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In sessions she helps clients test new behaviors, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, concrete changes that move a situation forward. That approach is useful when someone needs practical steps for relationship conflicts, workplace problems, or parenting challenges.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration may include trying a short series of practical strategies and adjusting based on what helps most.
Confirm the current session options before booking to know which formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allowing shorter check-ins, sessions during breaks, or avoiding travel time. It can also let people try different tools like homework tasks, behavioral experiments, and communication practice between sessions.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Credentials
California, Colorado
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Kari commonly address?
She works with relationship and parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, stress, workplace issues, and related concerns such as self-esteem and life purpose.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is listening-focused and practical. Sessions emphasize small, actionable steps, boundary-setting, and improving everyday communication.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
Kari has ten years of direct counseling experience and over five years offering tele-mental-health services.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She holds the LMFT credential and practices in California; she is documented as CO LMFT and CA LMFT in her background.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.