About Karen
Karen Olson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona with 32 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes. Karen emphasizes practical support and steady guidance for people facing painful transitions.
Her approach centers on recognizing each person's strengths and experience. She treats clients as the experts of their own stories and helps them build on what already works.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-focused, with room to talk through difficult feelings and make changes at a manageable pace. Karen draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques and healing practices from both Eastern and Western traditions.
That mix allows her to tailor sessions to what a person needs - whether that means addressing panic attacks, working on communication problems, or managing shame and guilt. She also supports people dealing with infidelity, codependency, and family of origin issues.
Her background includes long experience helping people process grief, move through trauma, and find direction during midlife or when reevaluating life purpose. Karen also addresses practical concerns like money and financial stress that affect mental health. Her style is warm, direct, and steady, with a focus on actionable steps.
Clients connect in English and can work with her through several online formats. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.
Therapeutic techniques and online options
Karen uses a combination of evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside holistic practices from Eastern and Western traditions. One commonly used method helps people identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and then practices new coping skills to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Another approach focuses on processing painful memories and strong emotions so they have less hold over present life and relationships. These styles are applied to issues like panic, trauma, grief, communication problems, and life transitions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, then suggest options to try together. Plans are adjusted as needed so the work fits how someone prefers to learn and change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can fit during a break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer typing to speaking. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care while juggling work, family, and other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English