Karin Bendoraitis, LMHC

Karin Bendoraitis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with five years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and challenges from life changes. Karin speaks English and provides therapy rooted in clear, practical methods.

Karin uses straightforward conversation and active listening to learn what is most troubling. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test different responses. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness practices to help people build everyday habits that support their goals.

Her approach begins by identifying a few concrete goals. Sessions focus on skills that can be tried between meetings, like behavior experiments, values-based actions, and simple mindfulness exercises. Karin aims to keep each session focused and practical so clients leave with next steps.

She has worked with people dealing with trauma and post-traumatic stress and integrates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) when appropriate. Client-centered principles guide how she listens and adjusts pacing to each person’s needs.

Karin also addresses concerns such as body image, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and social anxiety. She explains techniques in plain language and helps clients track progress over time.

How Karin applies CBT, ACT and EMDR in online work