- Years in practice
- 17
- Credentials
- LPC, LPCC
- Licensed in
- Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Karen
Karen Kavaloski is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on issues parents often face such as stress, anxiety, parenting strain, grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, and major life changes. Karen writes plainly and aims to help people find steady ways to cope and move forward.
Karen draws on a long career that began in nursing and later shifted to counseling. She holds a Master of Business Administration and a Doctorate in Christian Ministries, and she is credentialed as an LPC and LPCC.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma and substance use in adults and several years supporting those reentering life after incarceration. In sessions she favors practical, skills-based work. She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-focused ideas, dialectical strategies, and client-centered care to help people practice new responses and reduce distress.
Mindfulness and compassion practices are woven into her sessions when useful. Karen understands the strain that caregiving and special-needs parenting can bring, and she speaks from personal experience as a parent and grandparent. She also brings perspective as a cancer survivor and from many years of life changes tied to military family life and relocations.
The work is collaborative and goal-focused. Karen helps people break problems into manageable steps, build communication skills, and create routines that support emotional and practical needs. She also offers written tools and exercises drawn from her self-help workbook series to reinforce progress between meetings.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Karen lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds affect current relationships. It helps people notice relational patterns and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical steps to change them, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and respond to strong feelings in ways that deepen emotional understanding and improve communication.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to identify goals, try methods, and adjust strategies based on what fits the client's needs and preferences. Sessions can include skill practice, communication rehearsal, and brief exercises to try between meetings.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is helpful for focused skill work and face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text message options let people send quick updates or work through thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and varied routines.
Questions people ask about Karen
What concerns does Karen commonly address?
She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, trauma and life transitions among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
The style is practical and collaborative, using clear skills practice, mindfulness, and client-centered listening to set achievable goals.
What kind of background does the therapist have?
She spent nearly 30 years in nursing before moving into counseling and has 17 years of counseling experience working largely with trauma and substance use.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LPC and LPCC credentials and is based in Missouri, with licensing noted in Michigan LPC and New Mexico LPCC as provided.
Which languages are offered and are international clients supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
In what formats are sessions available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and is billed through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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