About Karen
Karen Hargrove is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. She focuses on common and complex concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and issues around gender and identity. Karen aims to help people feel more confident in their own choices and to notice strengths they already have.
Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions are a place to talk through what is happening now and try small steps that can make daily life easier.
How Karen works
She encourages self-trust and uses the client’s own experience as a guide for change. With ten years of experience, Karen blends straightforward conversation with structured problem-solving. She supports people facing grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy questions, career stress, and mood challenges such as bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation concerns.
She also works with first responder issues, compassion fatigue, ADHD, social anxiety, and multicultural topics. Gender dysphoria and LGBTQ-related concerns are included in her focus areas and she seeks to create an affirming space for those exploring identity. Karen helps clients set realistic goals and tries out approaches that fit each person’s life and schedule.
Her background as an LPC in Georgia guides her clinical judgment while keeping the work down-to-earth and focused on what matters to the client. Sessions can include coaching-style tools alongside therapy techniques to support coping with life changes, forgiveness work, and rebuilding after loss.
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches work online
People often benefit from practical, shown-to-help methods that focus on thoughts, behaviors, and coping skills. Cognitive-based techniques help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more useful ones, which can ease anxiety and depression symptoms. Behavioral strategies focus on changing daily routines and practicing new responses to reduce avoidance and improve mood.Skills-focused coaching supports setting clear goals and trying small experiments between sessions. This approach can help with career stress, motivation, and coping with life changes by breaking larger problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will check what helps and shift course when something isn’t working.
Online therapy offers flexibility for a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing support, and people who like writing to organize thoughts. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, keep momentum between sessions, and try tools in real time.
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