About Karen
Karen Kavaloski is a Licensed Professional Counselor - Clinical Counselor (LPC, LPCC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, trauma and relationship concerns. Karen speaks English and practices from Missouri, drawing on a long personal history that includes nursing, family caregiving, and surviving cancer.
Her style is practical and conversational. She listens for the problem beneath the problem and works with clients to set clear, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills people can use between appointments, such as emotion regulation, communication steps, and coping tools for intense moments. Karen combines several approaches to fit each person’s needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape behavior, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, and dialectical strategies to manage strong emotions.
She also includes mindfulness and client-centered methods when the situation calls for them. Her background includes nearly three decades in nursing before shifting to counseling, plus work with trauma, substance abuse, and reentry after incarceration. She has direct experience supporting people facing complex family challenges, special-needs caregiving, and health-related stress.
Karen has also written self-help workbooks focused on personal growth. In sessions she encourages clients to be active partners in change. She helps people build practical routines, strengthen relationships, and find steadier ways to cope with life’s ups and downs.
How Karen’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-based work examines how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why certain relationship reactions keep repeating and offers steps to change those patterns in real interactions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them. It pairs short exercises and behavioral experiments with simple thinking tools to reduce anxiety, depression, and avoidance behaviors.
Karen views therapy as a collaboration. She will help clients choose which approaches to try first based on their goals, symptoms, and preferences. Together they check progress and adjust methods if something isn’t helping.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work on emotion and interaction skills. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill practice, and between-session support. These options give flexibility and steady access to therapeutic tools and coaching.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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