About Karen
Karen Delos Santos is a licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that reduce daily strain. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at making life easier to get through.
Karen uses an evidence-based approach to guide conversations about self-esteem, identity, and communication. She helps people untangle family of origin issues, caregiver stress, and codependency so they can make clearer choices.
How Karen works
Work often includes unpacking guilt, shame, jealousy, and feelings of emptiness to build healthier responses. Sessions address real-life problems like money worries, parenting strain, and midlife shifts. Karen also supports people coping with post-traumatic stress and social anxiety through steady, practical interventions.
The focus is on skills that transfer into daily life. Her style is client-centered and compassionate. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can reflect, practice new ways of relating, and rebuild self-love.
Progress is paced to each person’s needs. Based in Florida, Karen offers sessions that include video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Conversations are collaborative from the start, with attention to what matters most to the person sitting across from her.
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
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online flexibility
Karen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people make practical changes. One common approach focuses on skills training to manage anxiety and stress, teaching breathing and grounding strategies and step-by-step plans for handling difficult moments. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns, helping people notice interaction habits and try new ways of speaking and listening.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges to determine which techniques fit best. Clients and the therapist adjust methods over time so the work stays useful and aligned with changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and work more deeply, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to maintain consistency, try new skills in real time, and schedule therapy around work, childcare, or other obligations.
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