About Karen
Karen Andrews is a licensed professional counselor in Connecticut with 14 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, mood changes, or past trauma. Her style is calm and straightforward, focused on practical steps people can try between sessions.
She aims to build a warm, respectful space where someone can speak openly and be heard. Sessions emphasize clear communication and simple tools for daily life.
Background and approach
Karen uses plain language and concrete exercises rather than jargon. Her background includes work across many concerns such as self-esteem, eating and body image issues, anger, ADHD, and substance-related problems. She also supports people facing relationship strain, divorce and separation challenges, or the effects of isolation and loneliness.
Therapeutic approaches in her practice include attachment-based work, client-centered methods, and cognitive behavioral techniques. These approaches are used to help identify patterns, shift unhelpful thoughts, and strengthen emotional connection to oneself and others. Karen focuses on helping people build skills for better communication, manage impulsivity, and process grief and loss.
She also addresses issues related to intellectual disability and autism spectrum traits with a practical, respectful approach. Sessions aim to leave people with clear next steps and more confidence in handling difficult moments.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and patterns. It helps people notice connection needs and practice more supported ways of relating to others and themselves. Client-centered work centers the person in sessions, using empathetic listening to help someone find their own insights and solutions. This approach is useful when someone wants a space to be heard without pressure to change immediately. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It offers concrete strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or manage mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining attachment ideas with CBT tasks or using mindfulness practices alongside client-centered listening as goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video can help recreate face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English