If you are undergoing significant changes in your life such as a divorce, job change, or from children leaving home, you may benefit from seeing a caring psychotherapist. My goal is to assist you in creating a plan for self-care and to help you work toward finding solutions that lead to an enhanced quality of life.

Specialties Offered:

• Adolescent Psychotherapy
• Women in Transition
• Hypnotherapy
• ASW/LCSW Supervision and Consultation

I specialize in individual adult and adolescent psychotherapy as well as working with women in transition. In addition to traditional cognitive therapy methods, I utilize hypnotherapy to help to develop and implement strategies in order enhance your strengths and use them to create a balanced and happy life. Hypnotherapy is especially helpful for treating phobias, exploring emotions, and changing habitual negative thought patterns.

During adolescence, teens suffer from stress from family, relationships and friends while trying to navigate new situations in their lives as they become adults. I focus on empowering parents and adolescents to cope with all of the changes that happen during the sometimes confusing years of adolescence.

If you are an intern, Karen also offers ASCW, LCSW, ACSW and IMFT supervision and consultation services for counseling interns. She also provides individualized support for interns studying for their licensing exams.

Karen has an office in the Sorrento Valley community of San Diego, California, a convenient drive from Solana Beach, Carmel Valley and Del Mar.