Kara-Sue Harriott - Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C) - Addiction Treatment in Baltimore by Self Determined Recovery LLC.
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker – Clinical (LCSW-C)
  • Psychotherapist / Certified Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Ms. Harriott is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 6 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings, including foster care, residential treatment, substance abuse/dependence programs, community mental & behavioral health at a variety of outpatient mental health clinics. Kara also has over 10 years’ experience as a program development consultant, compliance analyst, and trainer, specializing in areas such as ethics/code of conduct, quality assurance and direct care services, risk management, as well as supportive services such as psychiatric rehabilitation. Kara centers her focus on working with adolescents and adults with specialties serving individuals who are transgender, gender diverse as well as their families.

Kara provides psychotherapy to individuals, couples, groups, and families, in cooperation with their psychiatrists, and surrounding communities. She has also developed and supervised programs in mental and behavioral health intervention and treatment. Over the years, Kara has dedicated her time to assisting EMR’s with clinical background to improve their platform and include more evidenced based material for more effective practices. In Kara’s work with you, individually, her goal will be to improve their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in efforts to have an enhanced quality of life. Kara’s goal is to provide simplistic educational tools curtailed to each client(s) needs in order to understand therapy in its simplest form as “a stripping down of one’s emotions, thoughts, behaviors, feelings, traumas, experiences to gain a more efficient understanding of a deep personal self-awareness.” As an individual learns more about themselves and their surroundings, they will be able to develop a deeper understanding of self, enjoy life more frequently and achieve their work, family life balance and goals