Counseling for individuals and couples
Honest, practical counseling for adults, in person in Vancouver or online across Washington.
Karolina works with adults as individuals and as couples, in English and Russian. Sessions run Sunday through Friday.
What we help with
Christian counseling and spirituality
Faith brought into counseling when you ask for it, including questions and doubts.
Trauma and PTSD
Working through what happened, including childhood trauma and abuse, at a pace that feels manageable.
Codependency and people-pleasing
Learning to notice your own needs, set limits and stop carrying what was never yours.
Narcissistic abuse and coercive control
Understanding a controlling relationship, and rebuilding trust in your own judgment.
Relationships and family conflict
Patterns that keep repeating with a partner, parent or family member, and how to change your part.
Divorce, blended families and parenting
Support for adults through separation, new family structures and the pressures of raising children.
Anxiety, depression and OCD
Practical tools for worry, low mood and intrusive thoughts that don’t ease on their own.
ADHD
Strategies for focus, follow-through and the frustration that comes with them, for adults.
Stress and emotional regulation
Coping skills for pressure, overload and reactions that feel bigger than the moment.
Grief and life transitions
Room to grieve a loss, and steady footing through big changes.
Self-esteem and women’s issues
Questions of worth, identity and the pressure to be enough.
Life coaching
Focused, forward-looking work on goals, decisions and what comes next.
Approaches
Treatment is tailored to you. Depending on what you’re working on, it may draw on these approaches:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Positive Psychology
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Strength-based
- Client-centered
- Attachment-based
- Psychodynamic
- Trauma-focused
You’ll talk together about goals, how often to meet and roughly how long counseling might take. You can ask questions, decline anything suggested or stop at any time.
Couples counseling
In couples counseling, the relationship is the focus and both partners take part. What’s said in joint sessions is part of that shared work.
If either partner meets or talks with Karolina on their own, she’ll first explain how that information may be used in joint sessions and where confidentiality ends. She won’t promise to keep something significant from the other partner without discussing it first. Each partner keeps their own privacy and records rights.
Couples counseling isn’t a custody or forensic evaluation, and it can’t guarantee reconciliation.
In person and online
In person
At the office at 201 NE Park Plaza Dr., Suite 200, Vancouver, WA 98684. Get directions.
Online
By Zoom, for clients physically located in Washington during the session. Join from a private place where you won’t be overheard. Sessions aren’t recorded without separate written consent.
Schedule a session
Call or text 971-464-1155. A short message with your name and the best way to reach you is all we need. Scheduling changes go by text.