About Karen
Karen Brown is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage anxiety and other life stresses. She writes in a calm, direct way that makes next steps feel possible. Her approach is practical and focused on everyday coping skills.
She aims to make sessions feel grounded and useful for real life. Karen combines evidence-informed methods to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge negative patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and move toward them. Her work often includes skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Dialectical behavior ideas are used to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills.
Attachment-based concepts help explore how past relationships shape current patterns. With seven years of clinical experience, Karen supports people through grief, addiction concerns, trauma, and career or parenting stress. She also addresses sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, mood challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try between meetings. Karen offers sessions in English and practices from Georgia. She provides a mix of therapeutic tools matched to each person’s goals.
The aim is steady, achievable change rather than quick fixes. If someone is ready to work on anxiety, relationship strain, or life transitions, she helps map a clear path forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions by clarifying what matters and setting small, meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication skills to reduce impulsive or self-destructive reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill demonstration. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins around work or caregiving. These options help people keep momentum while fitting therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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