About Karen
Karen Mohammed-Perry is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety, struggling with addiction, coping with trauma, or facing depression. Her style is steady and respectful, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Clients meet with Karen to talk through what matters most to them. She listens without judgment and then tailors conversation and goals to each person.
Background and approach
Many people come for help with motivation, self-esteem, sleep, or life changes, and she offers clear, gradual plans rather than one-size-fits-all fixes. Her work draws on several well-known approaches. Karen uses client-centered methods to keep the person's experience central.
She incorporates cognitive behavioral techniques to spot thinking patterns that get in the way. Mindfulness ideas and motivational interviewing skills are used to build momentum when change feels hard. Over a long career Karen has worked with a wide variety of concerns, including relationship strain, grief, ADHD, eating and intimacy-related issues, and career stress.
She also supports people facing substance use or compassion fatigue and those navigating adoption or foster-care related questions. Sessions are adapted to each person's needs and pace. Karen emphasizes cultural sensitivity and treats everyone with respect.
She aims to help people find clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and practical steps toward the life they want.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience. In online sessions this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps clients decide the next steps that feel right to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems down into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches simple tools to change unhelpful patterns; online work often uses short exercises and homework between meetings to practice new skills.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's goals and preferences. That might mean combining client-centered listening with CBT skill-building and some mindfulness practices as trust and clarity grow.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, send quick updates, or use brief coaching-style exchanges that fit a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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