Karen Kavaloski is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, substance use, relationship strain, grief, and major life changes.
01About Karen
Karen Kavaloski is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, substance use, relationship strain, grief, and major life changes. She has 17 years of counseling experience and draws on a long career that began in nursing before she became a counselor. Karen aims to help people build steadier routines, manage strong emotions, and find practical ways forward.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, reachable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on skills people can use right away - coping tools for anxiety, steadying strategies after loss, or ways to rebuild trust after hurt. Karen combines several methods to fit each person’s needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to understand close relationships, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift troubling thoughts and behaviors, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation.
She also uses client-centered practices that keep the person’s goals central. Her background includes nearly 30 years in nursing and roles supporting people with trauma, addictions, and reentry after incarceration. She has also worked with people affected by adoption, caregiving stress, cancer, and parenting challenges.
Karen says her lived experience as a caregiver and cancer survivor informs her empathy. In sessions she keeps language plain and practical. People who want concrete tools, clear next steps, and steady support often find this helpful.
Karen works from Missouri and offers several remote session formats to fit different schedules.
02Credentials
- LPC (Missouri)
- License 2020024537 · expires June 2027
- LPCC (New Mexico)
- License CCMH0197151 · expires September 2027
- LCMHC (North Carolina)
- License 13637 · expires June 2027
- LPC (Texas)
- License 97667 · expires July 2027
- LPC (Michigan)
- License 6401224938 · expires July 2028
- NPI
- 1205160199 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Karen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Methods Karen names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
These are the methods Karen names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Bringing attachment and behavior work to online therapy
Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people repair patterns that lead to repeated hurt. It can be useful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and attachment-related anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions in close relationships and helps people express needs and rebuild connection.Karen approaches finding the right fit as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest approaches to try. The plan can shift over time based on what helps most, so clients and therapist decide together which tools to keep using.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful when visual cues matter and a longer session is planned. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a simple check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates, ask questions between sessions, or have a brief check-in without scheduling a full call. These options aim to make ongoing care more flexible and easier to use alongside daily responsibilities.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Karen help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, self-esteem, career stress, anger, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a collaborative, down-to-earth style that focuses on practical skills and clear goals. Sessions aim to teach tools people can use between meetings.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 17 years of counseling experience and a prior career in nursing spanning nearly 30 years before she became a counselor.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds LPC and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor credentials listed as MI LPC and NM LPCC and practices from Missouri.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the country work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How are fees and starting steps handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
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