About Karen
Karen Grace is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri. She brings nine years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy questions, and the effects of trauma. She works with adults on addiction concerns, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and challenges tied to identity and sexuality.
Sessions are warm and straightforward, aimed at practical change rather than jargon. Her style is open and interactive.
Background and approach
She listens first and then helps people set clear, achievable goals. Discussions are nonjudgmental and focused on the next steps a person can try between sessions. She adapts methods to each person's needs rather than using the same plan for everyone.
Karen uses a mix of approaches that include acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR for processing traumatic memories, and Jungian perspectives when dreams or personal meaning are helpful. These tools support coping skills, shifts in behavior, and deeper emotional processing when needed.
She has additional experience with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiving stress, chronic health conditions, and kink-friendly sexual questions. Karen also addresses communication problems, codependency, grief from separation or disaster, and substance-related struggles. Her approach aims to help people gain clearer choices and more consistent coping.
She talks through practical strategies, emotional processing, and ways to track small changes. The focus is to make therapy useful and manageable for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions in line with those values. It focuses on accepting difficult feelings while building practical habits that move life forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches simple strategies to shift unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a trauma-focused method used to process distressing memories and reduce their intensity; it can be adapted to a virtual setting for people working through past trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences to choose or combine methods. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively whether to emphasize acceptance-based skills, cognitive-behavioral exercises, trauma processing, or other techniques as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and use of visual tools. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Iowa
- Languages
- English