Karen Bradt, LCSW

Karen Bradt is a licensed clinical social worker and certified trauma professional who combines clinical knowledge with practical tools to help people manage anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, and life transitions. She trained at the University of Central Florida, earning a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), a certificate in Addictions, and a master’s degree in clinical social work. Her LCSW credential means she is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker qualified to provide mental health services in a clinical setting.

Karen has extensive experience working with anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia, borderline personality disorder, depression, and histories of physical or sexual abuse, self-harm, and other traumas. Her approach blends traditional talk therapy with education about how trauma affects the brain and with concrete action steps clients can practice between sessions. She emphasizes that talk combined with practice helps reprogram automatic reactions to triggers and difficult relationships.

In sessions Karen asks clients to describe what they want to change, offers targeted education about diagnoses and brain function, and introduces small, achievable experiments to build new responses. She pays attention to physical health and activity as part of recovery, drawing on her own experience as a hiker and former Florida Trail activity leader and on her wilderness first aid certification. During winter months she may limit video scheduling because of frequent power outages - clients who prefer video are encouraged to request it. She also notes that on occasion intake requests are removed before she can respond, and a request to work with her is not a refusal.