About Karen
Karen Evanson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 21 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, phobias, panic, and trauma-related reactions. She offers calm, steady support and practical tools to help people cope with overwhelming feelings. Her manner is direct but warm, aimed at making steps feel doable for busy, worried parents.
Karen uses a mix of talking and skill-building in sessions. She helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
She also teaches emotional regulation skills for intense moments and breathing or grounding techniques for panic and fear responses. Her work often addresses the fallout from difficult experiences, including trauma, guilt, shame, and post-traumatic stress. She also helps people sort through family problems and the stress of parenting.
Sessions focus on clear goals and gradual progress rather than quick fixes. Karen combines several clinical approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on what matters to the individual.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are used to reshape thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and panic. She also integrates elements from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and trauma-focused practices when intense emotions or past harm are central concerns. Hypnotherapy may be introduced as one option for working with persistent fears or deeply rooted patterns.
Overall, she aims to create practical, usable strategies people can apply between sessions.
Approaches and online care for fear and trauma
Karen uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on the client's priorities. This approach means the therapist listens closely and helps people find their own solutions, which can be especially helpful for building confidence after trauma.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and phobias. CBT teaches concrete strategies, such as testing fearful predictions and practicing new responses, which can reduce panic and avoidance over time.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are introduced when strong emotions or impulsive reactions get in the way of daily life. These skills include short-term grounding, emotion regulation techniques, and problem-focused coping that can be used between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the specific problem to decide which methods to try first. This collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues and practice exposures when needed, phone sessions fit when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins or participants who prefer typing. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep consistent appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Texas
- Languages
- English
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