About Karen
Karen Jacobs-White is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 40 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical work around stress, anxiety, addiction, anger, depression, and life transitions. Her approach is calm and direct, aimed at helping people take manageable steps toward feeling better.
She makes space for clients to talk honestly about what they are feeling. Sessions are built on listening first and then trying small, real changes.
Background and approach
She encourages people to notice what matters to them and to practice new ways of coping between meetings. Karen draws on a mix of tools including cognitive-behavioral methods to challenge unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based strategies to reduce struggle with painful feelings, and emotionally-focused work to improve how people understand and respond to strong emotions.
She tailors those tools to what each person needs in the moment. Her long experience includes supporting people through addiction and health-related stress, grief, and family-of-origin issues. She helps with common challenges like codependency, communication problems, and feelings of isolation.
Karen pays attention to the whole situation, not just symptoms. People who prefer straightforward guidance and a steady, supportive presence may find her style helpful. She aims to empower clients to make choices that fit their values and daily life.
The first step is a simple conversation to see if the match feels right.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Karen uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often involves short exercises and practical homework to test new ways of thinking and acting in daily life.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT supports people in taking steps that align with their values, even when emotions are difficult.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that suit those needs. Over time the plan can be adjusted based on what helps most.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for frequent check-ins, brief coaching, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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