About Karen
Karen Mohammed-Perry is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, low self-esteem, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Karen aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for people seeking change.
She uses practical, evidence-based approaches in sessions. Conversations focus on what feels most urgent and what can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
Karen adapts the pace and tone to match each person's needs and preferences. Her work often includes cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop different behaviors. Mindfulness exercises are offered to help with grounding and managing overwhelming feelings.
Motivational interviewing is used when people are stuck or unsure about next steps. Karen describes her style as respectful and culturally aware. She pays attention to life context, including past trauma, grief, and difficult family dynamics.
Discussions can include coping skills, goal setting, and problem-solving strategies that fit everyday life. Sessions may address additional concerns such as parenting strain, sleep or eating issues, career stress, ADHD, and substance use. She also works with people facing adoption or foster care questions, divorce, and loneliness.
The focus is on clear, doable steps toward feeling more able to manage daily demands and long-term goals.
How evidence-based methods meet online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting conversation so clients set the agenda and pace. It helps people who want a collaborative, nonjudgmental place to talk through problems and figure out what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers straightforward tools to test unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day struggles.
Mindfulness Therapy introduces simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and increase presence. These techniques are often paired with other methods to manage stress, cravings, or overwhelming emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen will talk with each client about their goals and preferences, then shape sessions around what seems most helpful. That collaborative process makes it easier to try methods and adjust them when needed.
Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is good for longer sessions and visual connection, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can support quick check-ins or stepped pacing. These options offer flexibility so people can keep progress going across different schedules and situations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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