About Karen
Karen Larkins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of experience in behavioral health. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those struggling with depression or low self-esteem. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at giving people tools they can use between sessions.
She has spent much of her career supporting people with disabilities and addressing the stigma and barriers that can affect overall health.
Background and approach
That work informs how she looks at problems such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, and isolation. She listens for the real-life obstacles that get in the way of daily functioning and self-worth. In sessions she helps clients identify symptoms and patterns, then builds step-by-step plans to manage them.
Practical skills might include coping strategies for anxiety, communication tips, and ways to increase confidence and self-efficacy. The pace is collaborative and tailored to each person’s needs. Karen also works with issues tied to life transitions, grief, and end-of-life concerns, along with concerns about body image, abandonment, and emptiness.
She aims to help people find clearer direction and greater resilience. Her approach mixes problem-solving with emotional support. All work is offered in English and is provided from Michigan.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and preferences.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Karen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and symptom management. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking and testing it with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Another approach centers on building coping skills for stress, such as breathing exercises, activity planning, and stepwise problem solving to handle overwhelming tasks.Finding the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with the client to choose and adapt techniques based on their goals, daily routines, and what feels most doable. That collaborative process often includes checking progress and adjusting methods over time to fit changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, quieter surroundings, and different comfort levels with being on camera.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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