About Karen
Karen Egertson uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 17 years of professional experience.
Background and approach
Karen focuses on straightforward, usable strategies so people can notice small changes that add up over time. She helps people work through trauma and abuse with careful pacing and attention to safety.
Karen supports those facing parenting challenges and offers coaching-style guidance to boost motivation and confidence. She also addresses self-esteem, grief, anger, and the mood shifts that come with depression or bipolar concerns.
Her experience includes assisting clients with relationship and family strain, compassion fatigue, and career stress. Karen also works with people navigating ADHD and offers focused support for first responder issues.
She prefers an approach that centers the person’s own knowledge about their life rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are practical and goal oriented.
Karen talks through steps people can try between meetings and adjusts the pace to each person’s needs. She emphasizes small, achievable changes that build strength and resilience over time.
Starting therapy can feel hard, and Karen aims to make that step less intimidating. She offers steady support while helping people identify what matters most and take workable steps toward it.
Online care tailored to practical, evidence-based strategies
Karen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world skills and steady progress. One common approach concentrates on building coping skills for stress and anxiety through breathing, grounding, and step-by-step behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. Another approach targets trauma and abuse with careful pacing, attention to safety, and gradual work on painful memories so people can regain a sense of control. These approaches are explained in plain language and adapted to each person’s pace.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works together with the person to identify needs, goals, and what feels manageable. Over the first few sessions Karen and the client will discuss options and try methods that match the client’s preferences and circumstances.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and structured sessions, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred, and messaging options support ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and busy schedules while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English