About Karen
Karen Jacobs-White is a licensed professional counselor with four decades of experience in Georgia. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, depression, and big life changes. Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at making the first steps toward change easier to take.
Karen focuses on building an open space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions emphasize clear goals and practical strategies for everyday life.
Background and approach
She listens first, then works with each person to find what helps in their situation. Her long practice includes support for people struggling with attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, and problems with guilt or shame. She also helps those facing communication breakdowns, control issues, divorce or separation, and isolation or loneliness.
Addictions and co-occurring concerns are addressed with attention to the whole person. In sessions Karen uses methods that encourage values-based choices, strengthen emotional connection, and challenge unhelpful thinking patterns. She adapts tools from different approaches to meet individual needs.
The emphasis is on doable steps that fit daily life. People who work with Karen can expect a calm, steady presence and practical guidance. She supports self-awareness and skills-building so clients can handle stressors more confidently.
Her style suits those who want honest conversation and clear, manageable next steps.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values, even when feelings are painful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotional patterns in relationships and helps people build stronger emotional understanding and connection.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Karen will discuss goals, preferences, and specific problems to decide which methods to use. She mixes techniques as needed so the work fits each person's situation and aims.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make participation easier. Video lets people work face to face; phone can be a shorter check-in with less bandwidth; live chat suits quick conversations; and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English