Approaches

Karen is passionate about supporting adults, adolescents, and children to live fuller and more meaningful lives. Instead of avoiding challenging experiences and emotions, she aims to help you use them as a launchpad for growth and wellness. 

Karen integrates the following approaches:

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach that comes from behavior therapy and cognitive behavior therapy. Clients learn to make room for, and accept all emotions rather than deny, stop, or struggle with them. The ACT approach surmises that feelings are simply responses to certain situations, and that they should not prevent one from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept life’s challenges and commit to making necessary changes in their behavior, no matter what the situation is that they are encountering and the emotions that arise from it. Acceptance, mindfulness, and values are key psychological tools used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

  • Cognitive Behavior therapy suggests that with an understanding of your thought processes and their relationship to behavior, you can change your life by changing the way you think. Developing an awareness about your thoughts and interrupting automatic negative thoughts can help you think in healthier ways and therefore lead to more helpful behaviors. This therapy has been proven effective in preventing relapse in patients with depression and anxiety. It has also been proven to aid patients with a variety of other psychological problems. This type of therapy is a short-term, goal-oriented form of treatment that can be thought of as a combination of behavioral therapy and psychotherapy. The treatment takes a hands-on, practical approach to problem-solving. Psychotherapy focuses on the personal meaning of thought patterns that are believed to have developed in childhood. Behavioral therapy emphasizes the close relationship between problems, behavior, and thoughts.

  • Solution-Focused therapy is a brief therapy that develops solutions by first generating a detailed description of how the client’s life will be different when the problem is gone, or their situation improved. The necessary resources needed to arrive at a practical solution are identified so that the client can readily implement the co-created plan. SF therapists and their clients consistently collaborate in identifying goals and developing satisfying solutions.

Karen’s approach to therapy is:

  • Collaborative

  • Goal oriented- you set your goals and Karen will help you reach them

  • Action based

  • Integrative

  • Person-centered

  • Designed to meet each client's individual needs

  • Draws upon evidence-based approaches 


Karen’s approach is ideal for those who:

 ✅ Are open to developing a trusting rapport 

     ✅Are committed to completing self-directed exercises 

   ✅  Can or are willing to express their emotions