About Karina
Karina Hernandez is a licensed marriage and family therapist with five years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her approach aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who feel overwhelmed. Karina focuses on relationship concerns and communication problems.
She also addresses divorce and separation, family of origin issues, infertility and fertility stress, and challenges around trust and infidelity. Parents facing postpartum depression and people dealing with immigration or multicultural stressors can also find support.
Sessions emphasize clear goals and steady progress. Karina helps clients set boundaries, build self-esteem, and work through guilt or shame.
She uses a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to match each person’s needs rather than one fixed method. Her work centers on collaboration.
Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental space where they are listened to and treated with respect. Karina aims to help people find practical ways to manage symptoms and move toward a fuller life.
Karina offers services in English and Spanish from California. She provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Karina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques adapted to each person's situation. She often draws from humanistic approaches that focus on understanding the person’s experience and building self-worth. This helps when someone needs space to process emotions, grief, or identity questions.She also uses practical, problem-focused strategies to manage symptoms like anxiety and depression. These techniques teach skills for handling stress, improving communication, and setting boundaries during life transitions or relationship conflict.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Karina will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try methods that make sense for their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find what actually helps rather than forcing one method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances, while phone sessions work well for people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging permit brief check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions, and easier scheduling around work or family obligations. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and fit it into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish