About Karen
Karen Hargrove is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing identity questions, addiction struggles, grief, parenting strain, and work or career pressures. Her approach aims to help clients feel more confident and able to respond to life’s challenges.
She works in a calm, encouraging way that centers the client’s own experience. Conversations focus on practical steps and new ways of responding to old patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build trust in a person’s strengths so those strengths can guide change. Karen brings about 10 years of experience to her work and draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood disorders, PTSD, ADHD, and related concerns. She pays attention to multicultural and gender-diversity issues, including gender dysphoria and LGBT matters.
First responder issues and compassion fatigue are also within her focus. In sessions she helps people tackle specific problems like anger, intimacy concerns, social anxiety, and disruptive mood symptoms. She offers coaching-style support when clients want goal-focused work, such as career decisions or behavioral changes.
The tone is practical and growth-oriented. Therapy is offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People interested in beginning complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
The subscription-based service can be canceled at any time.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Many of Karen’s sessions use evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. Cognitive behavioral approaches help people identify and shift thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety or depression, and teach practical coping tools for day-to-day life. Trauma-focused strategies help people reduce the impact of past hurt by teaching grounding skills, emotional regulation, and gradual exposure to painful memories or triggers. These methods aim to lessen symptom intensity and increase a person’s sense of safety when reminders arise. Karen also incorporates coaching-style methods to set concrete goals and plan steps toward career, relationship, or behavioral changes. This work tends to be action-oriented and focused on measurable progress. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, listen to the client’s needs and goals, and adapt methods as work progresses to find what fits best. Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone appointments can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it simple to get support between sessions or when a quick update is helpful.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English