About Karen
Karen Simms is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, and problems with self-esteem. She works with concerns like addiction, trauma, grief, sleep trouble, parenting strain, anger, and mood disorders such as bipolar and depression. Karen welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, including those who identify as LGBT, and she accepts international clients.
Her approach is direct and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients name patterns that get in the way.
How Karen works
Therapy sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking about relationships, boundaries, and life choices. Karen uses several approaches depending on the person and the issue. Attachment-Based Therapy helps when past bonds affect current relationships.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and strengths. Motivational Interviewing supports change when someone feels stuck. She holds LMHC and LPCC credentials and has 19 years of clinical experience.
Karen practices from Ohio and brings attention to multicultural concerns, caregiver stress, blended family tensions, and complex grief. Sessions may include talking through recent events, mapping out relationship patterns, and trying small behavioral experiments between meetings. If faith matters to a person, she will explore that respectfully when invited.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions by following the Start Therapy process. Subscriptions are used for sessions and can be canceled at any time.
Karen lists 8 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
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How these approaches fit with online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect how people connect now. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and strengths, giving them space to set the pace and topics in each session. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck about change by exploring ambivalence and boosting motivation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which combination of methods to try and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people fit short check-ins into a busy day or keep a thread of reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity and try approaches across different formats.
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A practical next step
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