About Karen
Karen Wassom Hammond is a licensed professional clinical counselor in Kentucky. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, sleep problems, mood challenges, and ADHD. Karen creates a calm space where clients can talk without judgment and begin to make practical changes.
She favors straightforward conversation and collaborative goal-setting. Sessions often involve identifying patterns that get in the way, trying small changes, and checking what works.
Background and approach
Karen can include faith-based perspectives when a client requests that option. Karen uses approaches rooted in Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That means she listens closely, helps clients clarify their values, and uses exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to strengthen emotion regulation and improve relational connections. Her work spans general life concerns such as managing anger, coping with depression or bipolar-related mood swings, and moving through trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing parenting stress, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and money or purpose-related worries.
With 12 years of professional experience, Karen aims to make therapy practical and approachable. She helps clients set realistic steps, build skills they can use between sessions, and track progress over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building trust. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people name what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance and a clearer sense of direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts and behaviors connect. Sessions include practical exercises like tracking patterns, trying different reactions, and testing small changes to see what helps. CBT is often used for sleep problems, low mood, anxiety, and ADHD-related planning challenges. Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest a path that mixes listening, skill-building, and relational work. Plans are adjusted over time based on what the client finds helpful. Online therapy makes regular contact easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can fit a busy break or lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between appointments or use shorter check-ins when that suits their schedule. These options increase flexibility and help people keep therapy consistent with daily life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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