- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Karen
Karen Haggard is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters most to each person. Her style aims to make therapy feel practical and usable for day-to-day life.
Clients often come for help with relationships, intimacy-related issues, addiction, sleep problems, anger, or work stress. Karen also supports people facing trauma, attachment concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She works with issues tied to identity and LGBT concerns, and she addresses complex topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care, and blended family stress. Her approach blends evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, and cognitive behavioral techniques.
Karen uses skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and a client-centered stance to help people build coping skills and clearer communication patterns. Sessions focus on practical tools and steady reflection. She helps people notice patterns, test small changes, and practice new ways of responding to difficulties.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Karen holds LCSW credentials in Illinois and Texas and has helped people through long-term struggles and sudden crises. She offers sessions in English and works with people both inside the U.S. and internationally.
To begin, she guides clients through clear first steps toward scheduling and matching.
What Karen works with
Everything Karen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Karen helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Karen lists
- 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
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches for online parenting support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and parenting challenges when people want clearer direction. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people practice new ways of connecting and responding, which can ease intimacy and caregiving tensions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try first based on goals and what feels most useful. Sessions often mix styles so practical skills and emotional understanding build together over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls allow more face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deep conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people share quick updates, get encouragement between sessions, and keep momentum while adjusting to a busy parenting life.
Questions people ask about Karen
What concerns does Karen commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and parenting issues among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is compassionate and down-to-earth, blending practical skill-building with reflective conversation to help people make small, usable changes.
What kind of experience does she bring?
She brings 25 years of clinical experience supporting people through life transitions, trauma recovery, and long-term emotional challenges.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is an LCSW with licenses in Illinois and Texas and is based in Illinois.
Which languages are sessions offered in and can international clients participate?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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