About Karen
Karen Andrews is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Connecticut with 14 years of experience. She creates a calm, accepting space where people can talk about what feels overwhelming and learn ways to cope. Many come to her for help with anxiety, stress, grief, eating concerns, anger, bipolar symptoms, and ADHD.
She uses a straightforward style that focuses on real-life changes. Sessions often center on improving communication, reducing impulsivity, and managing strong emotions.
Background and approach
Karen helps people sort through relationship strain and family problems by looking at patterns that keep them stuck. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape expectations and reactions in relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test more balanced ways of thinking.
Mindfulness strategies are offered to help with emotional regulation and staying present during distressing moments. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person. Karen listens first, then helps set short-term goals and practical steps.
She encourages experimenting with small changes between sessions to build confidence. People who reach out can expect clear, down-to-earth guidance rather than jargon. The focus is on usable skills and better daily functioning.
Her aim is to help clients feel more settled, more in control, and clearer about their next steps.
Approaches and how online sessions can help
Karen draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions in adult life; this helps when patterns of mistrust, avoidance, or clinging get in the way of feeling understood. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so you can test and change unhelpful thinking that fuels anxiety or impulsivity.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Karen will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals and comfort level. That collaboration includes trying techniques in sessions and adjusting them based on what feels useful and doable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls let people keep face-to-face contact, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or real-time problem solving. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving, and to continue momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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