About Karen
Karen Galvin is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with three decades of experience based in Montana. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship struggles, and stress. Karen also supports individuals dealing with trauma, grief, addiction, parenting challenges, and mood concerns.
Her style is warm, positive, and practical. She listens closely and works alongside clients to set realistic goals. Sessions focus on building strengths, improving communication, and developing coping skills that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Karen draws on several approaches to tailor care. She uses client-centered techniques to keep the work personal and collaborative. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking and replace it with workable behavior changes.
For trauma and painful memories she may use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate. She also brings mindfulness and hypnotherapy tools to help with stress, sleep, and habit change. The goal is to pick strategies that match each person’s needs and preferences.
With extensive experience across outpatient, residential, and hospital settings, Karen is familiar with many life stages and situations. She aims for sessions that feel manageable and useful, so people leave with concrete next steps. Her approach is collaborative: clients and she build a plan together and adjust it as progress is made.
How different approaches work in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own experience. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the person lead the conversation, which can be useful for building confidence and clarity about goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions this approach uses concrete exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and develop new coping behaviors for anxiety, depression, and stress.
EMDR is a method used to reduce the impact of traumatic memories. In remote work it involves guided attention and processing of upsetting memories so they feel less intense. It is often chosen when past events keep causing distress in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face from another location. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and are useful for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy days and help keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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