About Karen
Karen Kavaloski is an LPC and LPCC with 17 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, trauma, and major life changes. She practices from Missouri and uses a down-to-earth style that focuses on practical steps and steady support. Karen encourages clients to build on their strengths while working toward clearer goals.
Karen draws on a long career background that began in nursing and moved into counseling.
How Karen works
She has personal experience with caregiving and serious health challenges, and that history influences her approach to steady, compassionate care. She aims to meet people where they are and help them find manageable ways to cope and grow. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with concrete skills from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches.
She also uses attachment-focused work and emotionally focused ideas to address relationship and intimacy concerns. Conversations tend to be practical, with tools you can try between sessions. Karen has worked extensively with adults on trauma and substance use issues, and has additional experience related to reentry after incarceration.
She also supports people facing loss, caregiving stress, blended family challenges, and medical concerns such as cancer. She holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in ministries in addition to counseling credentials. Outside of work she spends time reading, meditating, gardening, and doing light exercise to stay balanced.
Karen lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional responses; it is useful for intimacy, attachment issues, and communication problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions in relationships and helps people express needs and repair connection when intimacy or communication is strained.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life situation. Sessions can shift over time so techniques and focus evolve as progress is made.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief updates or between-session support into a busy schedule.
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