About Karmen
Karmen Andrews is a licensed professional counselor in Oklahoma who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and shifts in their life. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Her style aims to make big problems feel more manageable and to rebuild confidence over time.
Karmen draws on a few evidence-based methods to shape sessions to each person’s needs. She uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the individual.
Background and approach
She also integrates cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and develop new coping skills. The practice emphasizes clear goals and short-term tools alongside deeper emotional work. Sessions may include mindfulness exercises to calm the body and Motivational Interviewing to help people move toward change.
Conversations often include concrete homework and practice to help new behaviors stick. Karmen has four years of clinical experience as an LPC. Her background includes helping people with grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, career strain, chronic illness and addiction.
She also addresses issues such as ADHD, body image, codependency, dissociation, and anger. Therapy is offered in multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs. The focus is on collaboration - setting reasonable steps, tracking progress, and changing the plan when something isn’t working.
Karmen aims to make counseling down-to-earth and useful for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s priorities and following their lead. In practice this means the therapist listens with curiosity, reflects what she hears, and helps clients set goals that feel meaningful to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions use simple exercises to spot patterns, test unhelpful beliefs, and build new coping skills useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on feelings and how they show up in relationships. It can help people communicate needs, reduce intense reactivity, and repair trust in close bonds.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with clients to try methods that match their goals and preferences. If something isn’t helping, the plan can change so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, written coaching, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options aim to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English