About Karen
Karen Galvin is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Montana. She brings 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, mood disorders, and substance concerns. Her approach is warm and practical, aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
She keeps sessions collaborative and strengths-based. Karen listens first, then works with each person to build clear, doable steps toward their goals.
How Karen works
She uses techniques that match the person’s needs, whether that means short skills practice or deeper processing work. Her background includes long experience across outpatient, residential, and hospital settings. That variety shaped a developmentally informed outlook and an ability to adapt strategies for different life stages.
She draws on decades of clinical work rather than a single method. In a typical session she helps people name what’s most troubling, learn simple tools to reduce overwhelm, and test small changes between visits.
She also supports people dealing with grief, anger, identity and self-esteem struggles, abandonment or attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and complicated relationship events like divorce or infidelity. Karen mixes client-centered listening with evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioral approaches, EMDR for trauma processing, Gottman-informed work for relationship patterns, and hypnotherapy or mindfulness when helpful.
Her style is flexible and focused on practical progress.
Karen lists 10 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. The therapist offers empathy and gentle guidance so clients can find their own solutions, which helps with self-esteem, relationship patterns, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses straightforward exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and anger.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used for processing traumatic memories. It combines focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation to help reduce the emotional intensity of past events and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review the concerns, goals, and preferences and recommend one or a blend of methods. Clients and the therapist decide together which strategies to try and adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video. Chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges. These formats give flexibility so therapy can happen around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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