About Karen
Karen Stockham uses a practical, client-centered approach to help people make real changes in their lives. She brings 24 years of counseling experience and focuses on improving relationships, managing stress, and addressing mood and behavior concerns. Karen is an LPCC practicing in New Mexico and she speaks English.
Her work often centers on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and relationship conflict. She helps people tackle communication problems, codependency, and issues around commitment or trust.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and challenges with self-esteem or life purpose. Karen integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas with client-centered listening. That means she helps people notice how thoughts and actions affect feelings, then practices new responses together.
She also draws on emotion-focused ideas and mindfulness to strengthen emotional awareness and connection. Sessions tend to be practical and action-oriented. Karen helps clients set goals, try new skills, and track progress.
For couples and parents she works on concrete communication tools and problem-solving steps that can be used at home. Outside of practice she is a parent and grandparent who values family time, outdoor activities, photography, and volunteering. She aims to make therapy approachable and convenient, and she is comfortable working through video, phone, chat, or messaging to fit different needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person's perspective and building on their strengths. Online sessions with this approach involve empathic listening, reflective questions, and collaborative goal setting to help people feel heard and take steps forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. In remote sessions, the therapist and client identify unhelpful thinking, practice new skills, and use homework between meetings to test changes in day-to-day life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. When offered online it can include short coaching-style check-ins, skills practice during sessions, and focused work on emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods when needed, and adjust the plan based on what a client finds helpful. This collaborative process aims to match techniques to the person's preferences and situation.
Online formats include video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls let people see facial expressions and practice communication skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging can suit brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing skill practice between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work from different locations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English