Kari Russo, Director

LMHC, LMFT

Kari Russo, as the Director of the First Orlando Counseling Center, is committed delivering excellent mental health care through her individual sessions with clients and leadership of other mental health professionals. She is dually licensed as a Mental Health Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist. With over 25 years of clinical experience, she is on the cutting edge in the counseling and psychotherapy field. Kari educates therapists in various successful modalities including Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) and is trained to use EMDR, RTM, tf-NLP as well as other integrative techniques.

Services Offered

  • Counseling for Trauma

  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

  • Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM)

  • Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)

  • Managing Emotional States Effectively (MESE)

  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT).

Areas of Specialization

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Therapist Training/ Supervision

  • Family Dynamics

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Relationship Counseling

  • ADHD

Client Focus

  • Ages

    • Pre-Teens 11-13

    • Adolescents 14-19

    • Adults

  • Special Communities

    • Veterans

    • First Responders