About Karen
Karen Vigeland is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who offers one-on-one counseling to adults. She focuses on practical help for anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, and phobias. Her approach aims to help people feel steadier and more in control day to day.
Karen uses clear, straightforward conversations to uncover what’s behind difficult feelings. She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and patterns, then practices small changes that make a real difference.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize people’s strengths and build on what already works for them. Her work combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior techniques. Emotionally focused and existential ideas also shape sessions when exploring values, meaning, or deep emotional bonds.
That mix helps with mood problems, trauma, grief, and relationship stresses. With nine years of experience, Karen has worked in varied settings and with diverse adults. She aims for a calm, nonjudgmental atmosphere where people can speak honestly and try new ways of coping.
Conversations move at a pace the person sets and focus on achievable steps. Practical concerns like career changes, caregiver stress, ADHD-related struggles, and eating or anger issues are part of her caseload. She also addresses attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, dissociation, and other complex patterns.
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier behavior, and better daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Karen blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small changes in behavior. Client-centered work focuses on understanding the person’s experience and building on their strengths, which can be useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and life changes. CBT offers step-by-step skills for mood, phobias, and stress by changing thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation or intense reactions are present. DBT-style skills teach grounding, distress tolerance, and emotion management that can help during crises or when feelings feel overwhelming. Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative; the therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adjust methods as they learn what helps most.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier with limited bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep therapy consistent around work and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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