About Karen
Karen Egertson is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 17 years of experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, heal from trauma and abuse, and navigate parenting challenges. She also supports work on motivation, self-esteem, and confidence.
Karen centers the client's voice in sessions. She believes people bring strengths that can help them move past hard moments. She encourages small, practical steps that build toward bigger change.
How Karen works
The first step often takes courage, and she aims to provide steady support along the way. Her background includes many years working with mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder. She also helps with grief, anger, career transitions, and coping with major life changes.
Additional focus areas include compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues common to first responders. Sessions may cover relationship and family topics from an individual perspective. Karen offers coaching-style support when people want clear, goal-directed help alongside therapy.
She pays attention to how day-to-day habits and thinking patterns affect wellbeing. Clients can expect straightforward conversation and practical strategies. Karen helps people identify small changes that fit their life.
She works collaboratively to set goals and track progress. Over time clients build tools to manage stress and handle setbacks more easily.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Karen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she relies on helps people learn coping skills for stress and anxiety by teaching breathing, grounding, and activity scheduling to reduce overwhelm and build routine. Another approach focuses on trauma recovery, using careful, paced work to help people process difficult experiences and reclaim a sense of safety and control.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining skill-building, guided reflection, and coaching for clear steps forward. Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let conversations feel close to face-to-face. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, written reflection, and flexibility across different days and schedules. These options help people access care in ways that work for their routines and energy levels.
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