Kara Krauze(She/Her/Hers)

Kara specializes in working with diverse clients facing challenges with emotional well-being, relationships, professional or artistic goals, trauma, and life transitions. She has experience supporting individuals with depression, anxiety, medical conditions, learning differences, parenting (or child-free), trauma, and loss, including overlapping stressors and how they relate to your mental health and sense of personal agency and well-being.

Kara brings curiosity and compassion to each client session. Many of us carry silences, pockets of experience difficult to express or cloaked in shame from ourselves, our cultures, or our families. The things deemed most difficult to talk about are often the experiences and feelings we most need to express in order to move forward into fuller more satisfying lives. Before training as a therapist, Kara started as a writer and reader, a person looking to find and make sense through words and stories. By expressing our stories – putting our experiences into words – we gain insight into ourselves and greater understanding of others. The shared space of our therapeutic work offers a safe space for thinking about your life and all of its stories, the emotions and people so deeply affecting your mental health and choices.

Kara is a NYS Licensed Master Social Worker (MSW, NYU) and holds an earlier Master’s in Literary Cultures (with a thesis on trauma, narrative construction, grief, and suicide loss). Her undergraduate degree was in International Studies (BA, Vassar College), where she focused on languages and culture, lifelong passions. She has lived and studied outside the United States and enjoys thinking about the benefits and challenges of moving between countries or other geographic/identity spaces, including intergenerational adjustments in culture and language within families. She is an empathetic listener and uses a relational psychodynamic approach, creating a trusting therapist-client environment and rapport, supporting personal growth.