About Karen
Karen Stockham is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 24 years of experience. She focuses on practical, goal-oriented work to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, and major life shifts. Karen speaks plain language and aims to make therapy a useful, manageable part of a busy life.
Her approach centers on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques. Sessions often include looking at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems stuck, and trying small, doable changes.
How Karen works
She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused work when relationships and intense emotions are involved. Karen helps people facing a wide range of concerns. These include parenting and family issues, communication problems, grief, addiction, trauma and abuse, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar challenges, and struggles with self-esteem, intimacy, or life purpose.
She also addresses focused issues like abandonment, infidelity, blended family dynamics, and codependency. Her style is action-oriented and collaborative. She listens, then offers tools you can try between sessions, such as coping skills, communication exercises, and mindfulness practices.
Many people find this hands-on approach helps them see small gains sooner. Karen offers telehealth sessions from New Mexico using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She will work with clients to set clear goals, track progress, and adjust strategies as needed.
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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. The therapist follows your lead, supports your goals, and helps you notice what matters most in your life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings and behavior. It uses practical experiments and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Karen will talk with you about your goals and try different techniques to see what helps. The plan is collaborative: you set priorities, try tools in daily life, and adjust based on what is working and what is not.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you see facial cues and do longer sessions, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or you need a quick check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use tools in real time.
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