About Karen
Karen Kavaloski is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Her approach centers on practical steps people can try between sessions and on building inner strengths that last.
Karen draws on a mix of therapy styles to match each person's needs. She uses cognitive techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and skills work to manage overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
She also relies on attachment and emotion-focused ideas when relationship patterns and closeness are the concern. Her background includes a long career in nursing before counseling and additional graduate study in business and ministry. Karen has worked with adults affected by trauma and substance use for many years and spent time supporting people through prison reentry.
Those experiences shape a direct, steady style in session. Sessions move at a practical pace. Clients can expect clear goals, homework they can actually use, and a focus on skills that help in daily life.
Karen encourages clients to notice small shifts and to try new ways of relating to themselves and others. Outside of clinical work she reads, meditates, gardens, and keeps up light exercise. She is a cancer survivor and a parent and grandparent, and she draws on those life roles when it helps clients understand real-world struggles.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of closeness and trust between people. It helps when past relationship wounds affect how someone connects now. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name strong emotions and use that understanding to shift how they relate to others.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. This collaboration helps match approaches to what feels most useful for everyday life.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful when visual connection matters, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief, ongoing contact and can fit into a busy day or provide a way to share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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