Karley Reece , LPC

Karley Reece is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of clinical experience. She practices in Missouri and draws on years of work helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, anger, depression, and addiction. Karley focuses on real-life concerns like relationships, intimacy, body image, and parenting strain.

Her style is direct and warm. She aims to make sessions a calm place to talk through difficult feelings and make small, practical changes. Karley listens for patterns tied to attachment, abandonment, and communication problems and helps people notice what gets in the way of healthier connections.

Karley uses practical approaches that target thoughts, emotions, and solutions. She incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thinking. Emotionally-Focused ideas are used to strengthen how people understand and express emotions in relationships.

She also brings experience with trauma-focused work and solution-focused strategies to help clients build immediate coping skills and long-term tools. That combination supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, dissociation, or the aftermath of loss and separation.

Sessions are offered through video, phone, chat, and messaging, which lets people fit help into busy lives. Karley describes the first meetings as a chance to set goals together and try simple steps that can make daily life easier.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Karley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and often involves short exercises between sessions to change thinking patterns and reduce anxiety or depression symptoms.

She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) ideas to help people name and express emotions more clearly in relationships. EFT-based work can help when communication or attachment issues contribute to ongoing conflict or distance.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Karley will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then choose strategies together. She often blends methods so sessions match what a person needs in the moment.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video and phone are useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, while chat or messaging can work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone needs flexibility during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.