Kara spent several years working with adolescents in a residential treatment facility, focusing on providing treatment to adolescent females with trauma and attachment related issues and mood disorders. She has been a practicing therapist since receiving her Masters, providing services to youth in care and school-based therapy services to children and teens in the Quincy Public School system. Kara is trained in Theraplay, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), and Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). Kara is passionate about working to repair and restore relationships between parents and their children to help improve their connection to each other and their overall quality of life.