Karla is an award-winning best-selling author, speaker, and licensed marriage and family therapist. Karla’s passion is to see individuals, marriages, and families set free from the chains of dysfunction, scriptural misunderstanding, and emotional pain personally and relationally. Her messages provide practical solutions based on biblical truths that bring balance and clarity to life and relationship issues. She also desires to equip ministry leaders and lay counselors to reach out more effectively to those who are struggling with difficult relationships.
Karla holds a Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Master of Arts degree in Communicative Disorders. She is the author of five books. 10 Lifesaving Principles for Women in Difficult Marriages was a 2004 ECPA Silver Medallion winner. Her second book, When Love Hurts: 10 Principles to Transform Difficult Relationships, applies the same principles to all difficult relationships. Her third book, The Truth in the Mirror: A Guide to Healthy Self-Image, offers a unique and life-changing approach to the topic of self-image. Her fourth book is titled Change My Relationship: 365 Daily Devotions for Christians in Difficult Relationships and her fifth book Boundaries with Adult Children and Rebellious Teens: A Biblical and Practical Guide on What to Do and What Not to Do. Karla is the founder of ChangeMyRelationship.com. She has written hundreds of Internet articles, as well as several resources for Lifeway’s Women’s Ministry and eight studies she teaches at churches. She has a YouTube channel with over two hundred videos on difficult relationships and a podcast “Change My Relationship.”