About Karen
Karen Brown is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, addiction, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to what matters most. Her style is practical and focused on real steps that fit daily life.
With seven years of experience, Karen uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful habits, learning new coping skills, and strengthening relationships.
Background and approach
She emphasizes small, achievable changes that build over time. Karen blends cognitive behavioral techniques with emotion-focused and acceptance-based work. That mix helps people manage strong feelings, reduce distress, and make concrete behavior changes.
She also draws on attachment ideas to improve how people relate to others. Her background includes clinical training and practice in Georgia. Karen holds the LPC credential and has worked with people facing trauma, substance concerns, mood disorders, parenting stress, and life transitions.
She also has experience addressing issues related to adoption, caregiving, and blended families. In sessions she aims to create a supportive, respectful space. The focus is on collaboration - setting goals together and checking progress.
Karen describes therapy as a step-by-step process toward clearer thinking and more reliable daily routines.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while taking values-guided action. It can help when perfectionism, avoidance, or persistent worry get in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior change. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and habit patterns that cause trouble day to day.Choosing an approach is a team effort. Karen will work with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on problems, goals, and personal preferences. Sessions often blend techniques so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and guided skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit counseling into work, caregiving, and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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