Karen is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 30 years experience. Karen is originally from South Carolina, living in various places throughout the United States and Germany, with her growing up in a military family. She has worked in a variety of settings (in KY, NC, SC, PA) including outpatient, school based, psychiatric inpatient, assisted living, therapeutic foster care, residential, behavioral health in home services, and private practice. Karen specializes in working with individuals that struggle with anxiety and/or mood disorders, trauma recovery, self-esteem issues, stress management, grief and loss, and anger issues.

Karen appreciates the courage involved as individuals engage in the therapeutic process and work through complex issues. She provides a warm and caring environment to help facilitate inner healing and personal growth. Karen’s passion is to facilitate identity and significance in God’s truth about who we are, while dismantling negative strongholds of thought. Karen helps individual’s examine root issues in the core of their identity that produce painful emotions, lead to maladaptive behaviors, broken relationships, and impede their ability to progress. She offers evidence based treatment through EMDR to deal with trauma and/or distressing life experiences.