About Karen
Karen Palmer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 27 years of experience. She practices in Pennsylvania and works primarily with adults and couples. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and improve daily functioning.
She addresses concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. Karen also helps with relationship strains, intimacy issues, parenting stress, career concerns, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to impulsivity, codependency, and compassion fatigue. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then suggests techniques that fit the person's goals and life.
Sessions can include skill-building, problem solving, and emotion-focused conversation depending on what a person needs. Karen draws on familiar therapeutic approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work. These approaches are used flexibly to match the individual situation rather than as a fixed formula.
She often helps people notice how thoughts and habits shape mood and choices. From there she works with them to try small changes that feel manageable. Many people come for help with stress, relationship conflict, or ongoing mood struggles, and leave with clearer coping plans and new skills to try.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take small steps toward a life that matches their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying thinking patterns and trying practical behavior changes to reduce distress and improve mood. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and impulsivity. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and shifting emotional responses within close relationships to improve connection and reduce recurring conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose techniques and adjust them over time so the plan fits daily life and feels doable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy accessible and flexible. Video is helpful for a full session with visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat is useful for brief check-ins or continuing skills between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules, make check-ins easier during the week, and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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