About Karen
Karen Slaton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and depression. She writes and speaks plainly in sessions and aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk through what matters most to them. Her style blends practical tools with thoughtful listening.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions often include goal-setting, real-world exercises, and time to process difficult emotions. Karen pays attention to life transitions and roles that can affect wellbeing. She supports people coping with caregiver strain, aging and geriatric issues, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and challenges tied to addiction or isolation.
She also helps those processing guilt, shame, abandonment, and family-of-origin wounds. Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy tools appear in her work when someone needs help clarifying values or reframing their story. The focus is on small, doable changes that add up over time rather than quick fixes.
Karen combines direct feedback with empathetic listening to keep progress realistic. With ten years of experience, she brings steady attention to each client's goals. People who meet with her can expect a collaborative relationship that balances kindness with practical steps toward greater emotional balance.
Approach and Online Options for Practical Change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when someone wants to move toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to shift patterns that maintain depression or anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person sets the pace and the therapist follows with empathetic listening and reflection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen will collaborate with each person to try strategies that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. If one method doesn’t fit, she adjusts the plan and tries different techniques until something resonates.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief updates, journaling-style exchanges, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make scheduling easier and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English