Practitioner record · Checked 10 Oct 2026
Karinna Sanchez has been in practice 3 years and is licensed in California. Karinna lists stress, Anxiety, grief and parenting issues among 10 subjects on the BetterHelp roster.
Everything below is either quoted from Karinna's own BetterHelp listing, taken from public licensing records, or written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such. Nothing here is an availability promise, a review, or a rating.
01 · Who Karinna works with
Karinna lists 5 specialisms and 5 further focus areas. Specialisms are the subjects Karinna chose to list first, which is the closest a listing gets to “this is my actual practice”.
02 · In Karinna's own words
Reproduced in full and unedited - not summarised, not tightened, not rewritten in a house voice.
Hello! My name is Karinna and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I have 3 years of experience working with various mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, negative body image, low self-esteem, and interpersonal conflicts. Initial sessions with me are about getting to know the person and then getting to know the problem later. I firmly believe that a diagnosis is not the person, a diagnosis gives us a guideline of what symptoms to target and what possible interventions may work. My main focus as a therapist is to accompany you in your healing process and help you tune into your wisdom. Together, we will work on identifying what is no longer serving you, develop goals and a plan that work for you to make changes to reduce, and even eliminate, these feelings and behaviors causing pain and distress in your life today.
It takes a lot of courage to ask for help, and it is an honor to be trusted with your healing journey.
Karinna Sanchez, on the BetterHelp listing · read 10 Oct 2026
03 · What happens next
Karinna practises through BetterHelp, so the route in is BetterHelp's. This is that sequence, written by Maker Therapy from the platform's published process - not a description of Karinna's own practice, and not a promise about how quickly anything happens.
BetterHelp opens with a set of questions about what you are dealing with, what you want from therapy, and any preferences on the therapist. You are not booking Karinna at this point.
BetterHelp matches algorithmically by default, so asking for Karinna is a step you have to take. There is a field for requesting a specific therapist during sign-up, and you can switch afterwards from your account. Starting from a link on this page does not by itself assign you to Karinna.
You will be offered somebody else rather than put on a waitlist. Worth knowing, because it is easy to assume a match is the person you asked for.
A first session is typically history and orientation: what brought you, what has been tried, what you want to be different. It is also where the questions in the next section belong.
Changing therapist on BetterHelp does not need a reason. A first session that does not click is common and is not a verdict on therapy. That option existing is the main practical difference between a platform and a private practice.
04 · Before you commit
Built from what Karinna actually lists, so they are answerable and specific rather than generic. Maker Therapy's, not Karinna's - Karinna has not seen them and is under no obligation to answer any of them.
“How do you handle the gap between sessions if something comes up?”
On BetterHelp this varies a great deal by therapist. Better to know the rhythm now than to discover it on a bad week.
“You offer sessions in English and Spanish. Does the work change depending on which we use?”
People often reach different material in a first language than in a second. Worth naming before you choose.
05 · Practical details
06 · Provenance
Karinna's name, credential, state, subjects, approaches and biography are read from BetterHelp's therapist roster, which Maker Therapy re-reads once a day; this page reflects the reading taken on 10 Oct 2026. The licence number and NPI are cross-checked against public registers.
The plain-English method descriptions, the first-session walkthrough and the questions are written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such wherever they appear.
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