About Karen
Karen Stockham, LPCC, brings 24 years of counseling experience to her practice in New Mexico. She emphasizes a client-centered, action-oriented approach that aims to help people make practical changes. Karen listens closely and focuses on clear steps clients can try between sessions.
She commonly addresses ADHD along with stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns such as bipolar. Relationship and family issues are a frequent focus, including parenting challenges, blended family concerns, communication problems, and conflict resolution.
Background and approach
She also works with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and matters of self-esteem and life purpose. Karen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and actions. She pairs that with Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and client-centered methods to teach concrete coping strategies.
Mindfulness practices and emotionally-focused ideas appear in sessions when they match a client's goals. Sessions may include problem-solving, skill coaching, and planning small experiments to test new behaviors. Karen describes herself as action oriented and helps people set goals they can measure.
She also supports clients who want mediation-style help around separation, divorce, or parenting arrangements. Her background includes many years working with individuals and couples as well as families. She is comfortable using phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging to meet clients where they are.
Karen balances practical tools with steady listening to help people move forward.
Online approaches that focus on skills and change
Karen integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy into online work. CBT involves identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral changes, which can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and sleep habits. DBT offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance, useful for anger, relationship conflict, and mood swings.She frames approach selection as a team effort. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend strategies to try first. Over time they reassess and adapt methods so the work stays practical and relevant to your daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting around work, parenting, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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