About Karen
Karen Cash is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship struggles. She is straightforward and calm in sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Karen works with concerns like parenting strain, grief, intimacy issues, and career stress as well as identity and LGBT matters.
With 15 years as an LCSW in California, Karen draws on several therapy styles to match each person's needs.
How Karen works
She emphasizes listening first, then building a plan together. Sessions aim to teach coping skills and clearer ways to communicate with others. Her experience includes working with trauma survivors and people coping with loss from many causes.
She helps people who have faced abuse, domestic violence, or serious life changes to develop safety strategies and manage strong emotions. Karen also supports clients dealing with addiction, bipolar mood challenges, and ADHD-related struggles.
In the room she blends approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, acceptance-based methods for managing difficult feelings, and attachment-focused ideas to improve relationship patterns. The work is practical and goal-oriented, with space for reflection. People can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation that balances skill-building with emotional understanding.
Karen helps clients clarify what they want to change, try new ways of coping, and measure progress over time. Her style aims to make therapy feel useful and doable for everyday life.
Karen lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How certain approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then act on values that matter. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Karen will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. Together they set clear goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can fit therapy into busy schedules. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent work toward change while balancing day-to-day life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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