About Karen
Karen Galvin is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Montana who focuses on anxiety, stress, relationships, trauma, and mood concerns. She brings three decades of experience to her work and uses a warm, collaborative approach that helps people feel understood and supported. Karen aims to make sessions practical and hopeful so clients can start using new skills right away.
Her style is person-centered and strength-focused. She listens first, then tailors strategies to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Karen uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also offers EMDR for trauma processing and hypnotherapy and mindfulness practices for managing anxiety and stress. Across many settings over 30 years, Karen has worked in outpatient therapy, hospital care, residential treatment, and home-based counseling.
This range shaped a flexible, developmentally informed way of working with a wide variety of difficulties. She prefers straightforward planning and steady progress rather than complicated labels. In sessions she helps people cope with grief, addiction struggles, parenting stress, relationship problems, and life transitions.
She also supports those dealing with mood disorders, ADHD, and issues tied to adoption or attachment. The focus is on practical steps, clearer communication, and better day-to-day coping. Her goal is to partner with people so they notice small gains and build toward lasting change.
Karen encourages questions and adjusts methods as needs shift. She welcomes international clients and offers several online formats to fit different schedules.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard and decide which goals to work on. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going and teaches practical skills to shift them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps process traumatic memories through structured sessions and can reduce the intensity of past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Karen will talk through options and try methods that match the client's needs, goals, and comfort level. The process is collaborative and may blend approaches over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone calls can fit a tight schedule or lower bandwidth situations. Chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written exercises, or when someone prefers typing. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care across locations and busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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