Karen House

Karen House is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with 25 years of experience. She greets people with a relaxed style and focuses on practical problem solving. Her aim is for clients to leave early sessions with useful tools they can try right away.

Sessions build on what comes before. Karen adds strategies over time and addresses new problems as they arise. She listens closely and helps people notice patterns that make a difference in daily life. Therapy includes at-home activities between meetings to reinforce progress.

Karen works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, anger, bipolar, and sleep problems. She also helps people dealing with family problems, parenting strain, LGBT issues, and forgiveness. Additional focuses include attachment issues, codependency, communication and control issues, and first responder concerns.

Her clinical approach blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She aims to match methods to the person and the problem rather than using a single technique for everyone.

Karen practices from Colorado and offers services in English. International clients are accepted. If someone is thinking about starting, she asks that they be ready to engage actively and try suggested tools between sessions.

How therapy approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the person's perspective and responding with empathy; online sessions using this approach emphasize listening, reflection, and helping people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and skill practice, which adapts well to remote sessions through shared worksheets and homework. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses trauma-related symptoms by helping process distressing memories; certain EMDR techniques can be incorporated into virtual sessions when appropriate.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions can combine approaches and evolve as progress is made so the plan changes with the client's priorities.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, avoid travel time, and try short check-ins when schedules are tight. Some methods map naturally to virtual work, and the therapist will discuss how to adapt exercises and homework for a remote setting.