About Karen
Karen Hargrove is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. She creates a calm space where clients can explore their identity, values, and everyday challenges. Her approach centers on building trust in each person’s own experience and strengths.
Karen focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. She listens carefully and works with clients to develop clearer responses to stress, relationships, and tough emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to increase self-awareness and to find workable habits that fit each person’s life. Her background spans ten years in mental health work in Georgia. That experience includes supporting people through trauma, grief, addictions, mood concerns, and issues related to gender and sexuality.
She draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques to meet different needs. Karen also addresses concerns such as ADHD, first responder stress, social anxiety, and career-related strain. She helps people facing parenting challenges, intimacy problems, and compassion fatigue.
The goal is steady progress, not quick fixes, with steps that can be used between sessions. Clients can expect a collaborative and respectful style. Karen encourages curiosity about personal strengths and practical problem solving.
She aims to help people move toward a life that feels more self-directed and manageable.
Practical approaches for online work and coping
Karen uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills people can use between sessions. One common approach teaches step-by-step strategies for managing overwhelming thoughts and physical anxiety symptoms so people can regain control in stressful moments. Another approach emphasizes processing difficult experiences and building healthier responses to trauma and relationship wounds, helping people reduce reactivity and rebuild routines.Finding the right approach is usually a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods, notice what works, and adjust the plan over time to better fit daily life and long-term aims.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and use visual tools; phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited; live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, or other busy schedules while keeping continuity of care with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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