Karen Haggard, LCSW

Karen Haggard is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people cope with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She offers calm, practical support and focuses on clear steps people can use between sessions. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients feel less overwhelmed and more able to manage daily life.

With 25 years of experience, she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns. She also uses acceptance-based strategies to help people live according to their values when situations are hard. Sessions emphasize simple skills for stress, sleeping, and mood management.

Karen often helps people tackle communication problems, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and workplace pressure. She also works with people dealing with addiction, bipolar mood concerns, chronic illness, and identity or LGBT-related challenges. Practical problem solving and building better routines are common parts of her work.

Her background includes long experience in clinical social work and a person-centered orientation that keeps the individual's goals front and center. She helps people build plans that fit daily life and repeatable coping steps that reduce crisis moments. She explains ideas in everyday language and checks that strategies are realistic for each person.

Clients can expect straightforward appointments that focus on what matters to them. Karen supports people through life transitions, grief, and hard seasons without judgment. She helps people move from crisis thinking into clearer action and steadier daily habits.

How Karen’s approaches translate to online work

Karen draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors. CBT sessions often include clear practice tasks and short exercises that clients can try between meetings to reduce anxiety or lift mood.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take value-based action even when feelings are difficult. ACT supports coping with tough emotions and making steady choices toward a meaningful life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Karen works collaboratively to pick methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts techniques over time if something isn’t working. Clients help set priorities and steer what gets practiced in sessions.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging make short check-ins or skill coaching easier between appointments. These options help therapy fit busy schedules and different comfort levels.