About Karen
Karen Stockham is an LPCC with 24 years of clinical experience who uses a practical, client-centered style to help people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on clear steps and active problem solving so clients can feel more in control. Karen writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
Her work emphasizes how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings connect, drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered approaches to create a supportive space where goals are shaped by the client. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are woven in when helpful for regulation and distress tolerance. Karen brings experience across many concerns including relationships, parenting challenges, self-esteem, trauma and grief, mood issues, addictions, ADHD, and career stress.
She also helps with intimacy-related issues, eating or sleeping problems, and life transitions. Her additional focus areas include communication problems, codependency, infidelity, blended family issues, and forgiveness work. Sessions are offered through online formats to fit busy schedules, and she guides people through using those options at a comfortable pace.
Karen aims to help people set practical goals, improve communication, and reduce overwhelm. Her approach is action oriented and built around each person's priorities. Outside of practice, she enjoys family time, photography, outdoor activity, exercise, and volunteering at a local BioPark.
She is based in New Mexico and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Karen often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered methods to guide online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and helps people build tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, sleep and mood problems. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration so goals come from the client's priorities and pace.She may also use skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotional regulation or distress tolerance is needed. DBT skills teach practical ways to manage intense emotions, improve interpersonal effectiveness, and tolerate difficult moments without making things worse. Together these approaches aim to be practical and skill-based while staying responsive to what each person needs.
Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which techniques fit the client's goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions and adjust methods over time based on what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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