About Karen
Karen Bradley Jackson is a licensed professional counselor in Virginia with 25 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and many other life challenges. Karen emphasizes practical steps and steady support during change.
Her style centers on listening first and then building on a person’s strengths. She views each person as the expert on their own story and works collaboratively to set achievable goals.
How Karen works
Sessions focus on clear strategies that can be used between meetings and on skills to cope with distressing symptoms. Karen draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s needs. She helps with problem solving, managing strong emotions, improving communication, and handling major life transitions.
She also supports people facing complex issues such as caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care concerns, and compassion fatigue. Practical matters are part of her approach. Karen uses short-term goals alongside deeper work, and she reviews progress regularly so adjustments can be made.
Her aim is to make therapy feel useful from the start and to teach tools people can use in daily life. People meet with Karen by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
She conducts work in English and practices in Virginia.
What Karen works with
The areas below are the ones Karen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Karen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s situation. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills for stress and anxiety such as breathing, grounding, and activity planning; these tools are meant to reduce symptoms and make daily life more manageable. Another approach emphasizes building problem-solving and communication skills to address relationship strain, workplace stress, parenting challenges, and codependency; it helps people break problems into steps and try new behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Karen will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan when needed. This means clients help shape what techniques are used and how therapy progresses over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for full sessions with face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text messaging let people touch base between sessions, share quick updates, or use therapy without being on camera. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep momentum during therapy.
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