About Karen
Karen Foley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps patients can use in everyday life. Many people come with worries about panic, low mood, or addictive behaviors, and she aims to make the first steps feel doable.
Karen draws on 32 years of experience in Washington social work practice. She listens for what matters most to each person and builds on the strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, small experiments to try between meetings, and skills people can use right away. Her work includes support for trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and the hard feelings that follow separation. She also helps people who struggle with body image, shame, and isolation.
Conversations often cover how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect, and practical ways to interrupt unhelpful patterns. Karen uses a mix of talk and skills-based approaches. That can mean practicing grounding and mindfulness exercises, learning new coping skills from cognitive behavioral methods, or focusing on motivation and values when change feels stalled.
She aims to match tools to each person’s needs rather than follow a single script. Clients can expect a respectful, steady presence in sessions and straightforward suggestions to try between meetings. Karen sees the person, not just the problem, and works together with them to find manageable steps toward feeling better.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort out feelings and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood and teaches practical skills to change those patterns. That approach is often used for anxiety, panic attacks, and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, including breathing and grounding exercises for crisis moments.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they pick tools to try and adjust them as needed, so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers different ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, or steady contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use approaches like CBT and mindfulness where and when they are needed.
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- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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