About Karen
Karen Eldridge is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related stress. She speaks plainly and aims to make conversations feel natural and down-to-earth. Many clients come to her for help with relationships, self-esteem, depression, addictions, grief, and life transitions.
Karen began her counseling career after time in other fields, and she uses that life experience in sessions. She encourages honest conversation and aims to create a straightforward, dependable working relationship.
Background and approach
Her style centers on being genuine, taking responsibility, and holding clients accountable in practical ways. In sessions she blends different approaches to meet specific concerns. She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills for emotional regulation when needed. People often work with her on intimacy-related issues, blended family challenges, and infidelity. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, and addictions.
Karen helps clients set small, concrete goals and practices that can fit into daily life. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling from Lindsey Wilson College and a PhD in Psychology from Capella University. Karen works with adults and couples and offers straightforward guidance for real-world problems.
Her practice is based in Virginia and her sessions are in English.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's priorities. It gives the client room to set goals while the therapist reflects and supports progress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and reframe unhelpful thinking. DBT - Dialectical Behavior Therapy - adds concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Karen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and situation. That means trying tools, checking whether they help, and adjusting the plan as needed.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions can be useful when less bandwidth is available or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework, or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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