Kara Marino Verified Provider

Kara Marino, LPC, is a licensed therapist and owner of Peaks & Valleys Behavioral Health, providing online therapy for adults across Arizona. She specializes in adult ADHD, pregnancy and postpartum mental health and anxiety and trauma, using CBT, DBT and person centered approaches. 

Kara offers practical, compassionate and nonjudgmental care that meets you where you are and helps you build confidence, self trust and lasting strategies for daily life.

Adult ADHD Therapy with Practical Tools and Strengths Based Support

Kara’s core focus is helping adults navigate ADHD with executive functioning support, emotional regulation skills and personalized systems for organization and time management. As a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, she blends evidence based tools with a relational, strength based approach tailored to your goals.

In sessions, you explore thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to overwhelm while building practical skills like task prioritization, focus strategies and emotional coping tools. Treatment reframes ADHD as part of your unique strengths, targeting both root challenges and day to day functioning with clear takeaways to support progress between sessions.

Pregnancy and Postpartum Mental Health Care

Kara also works with mothers and expecting parents navigating postpartum anxiety and depression, birth trauma and the identity shifts that come with motherhood. Using trauma informed, person centered care, she helps clients process prenatal and perinatal experiences, reduce distress and adjust to new roles through validation, practical coping strategies and emotional support.

Getting Started With Online Therapy

Kara sees clients online across Arizona through secure telehealth, with services expanding to Utah. She holds credentials as an LPC in Arizona and CMHC in Utah, with specialized training in ADHD, DBT and prenatal trauma.

She is in network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare in Arizona and offers superbills for out of network reimbursement.