About Karen
Karen Wassom Hammond greets people who are nervous about starting therapy with a steady, nonjudgmental presence. She focuses on relationship and intimacy challenges, low self-esteem, sleep problems, mood concerns like depression and bipolar symptoms, and day-to-day struggles such as anger and motivation. Karen uses clear, practical steps to help people feel understood and to set realistic goals.
Karen is a licensed professional clinical counselor - LPCC - practicing in Kentucky with twelve years of experience.
Background and approach
She aims to make sessions feel like a calm space to talk through what matters most. When clients prefer, she includes faith-based perspectives as part of the conversation. Her approach blends client-centered care with evidence-informed methods.
That means she listens first, then helps people try skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused work. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when those skills are helpful. In sessions she helps people identify patterns that get in the way of better sleep, closer connections, or steadier moods.
She supports parents who need practical strategies for family challenges and coaches people through life transitions and financial stressors. Starting therapy can feel like a big step. Karen invites each person to go at their own pace, set clear goals, and review progress along the way.
Her style is straightforward, warm, and focused on usable tools that fit everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches adapt to online care
Client-centered therapy begins by prioritizing the client's experience and goals, focusing on active listening and empathy to help people feel heard and choose their direction. This approach works well for relationship and self-esteem concerns because it centers the client's values and pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers clear, structured tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for sleep problems, anxiety, depression, and mood regulation because it breaks issues into manageable steps and homework that can be practiced between sessions. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Karen will work together with clients to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That means initial sessions often focus on assessment and practical goal-setting rather than commitment to a single method. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact. These options increase flexibility for scheduling and for how someone prefers to work on their goals.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English