HI, I'M KAREN
I've been a Licensed Professional Counselor for almost two decades. With a background in Higher Education Counseling and Facilitation and Private Practice as a Mental Health Counselor, I combined my experience working through my own primary and vicarious trauma with practical tools built for efficiency and effectiveness. I love helping people to create routines that nourish and support them. My passion is to guide other helping professionals and teams back to the inner wisdom that is quiet, grounded and steady. I facilitate self trust, confidence and empowerment. Building self trust and removing doubt can shift your work and life in fascinating ways. I love seeing people light up with the recognition that they have the tools they need to move forward with their own power and volition. Once you feel balanced in your mind, body and spirit, and empowered in your personal agency, satisfaction and joy are natural, intended outcomes.
I love to work with my intuition and teach you about yours. If you have subtle senses and a knowing at times, that is the quiet wisdom inside asking you to listen. My expertise lives in nervous system awareness, somatic wisdom, mindful communication, creative interventions, and relationship connection skills. My facilitation style is customized to your/your team's needs. We work together on creating tailored sessions that allow the experiences and learning that will sustain your work and goals. I’ve walked alongside others through challenges, deep life transitions, loss, career changes, and healing from patterns that no longer serve them. My approach is steady, present, and deeply attuned to you and your team.
I am also honored to share that two of my article submissions are published in Reiki News Magazine. The Ways Reiki Enhanced My Therapy Practice, was published in Reiki News Magazine (Spring 2026). Read that HERE.
Read my most recent Reiki News Magazine article from the Fall 2026 edition, Offering Clients Freedom and Choice in Reiki Sessions HERE.
RETURN TO BALANCE:
HEALING CONTAINTERS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR BUILDING NERVOUS SYSTEM CALM, SOMATIC WISDOM, MINDFUL COMMUNICATION, AND GROUNDED PRESENCE.
How We Work Together
Grounded transformation happens when clinical expertise meets intuitive attunement. Because deep healing does not require endless, ambiguous processing, my practice is designed around highly intentional, brief frameworks. Whether you are seeking a sanctuary to recover from secondary trauma or looking to build a resilient workplace culture, we focus on integration over dependency.
I offer two distinct pathways for sustainable change:
Path 1: Individual Self-Healing Containers (4–8 Sessions)
Deep alignment doesn't have to take years. I specialize in brief, structured therapeutic containers designed to gently target and resolve one specific layer of burnout or at a time.
Together, we establish a clear path with a beginning, middle, and end. This focused format allows you to deeply integrate somatic relief into your nervous system, leaving you feeling self-assured, fully resourced, and quietly empowered.
This framework is a soft space for:
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Boundary Burnout & Vicarious Trauma: For therapists, educators, and caretakers who are exhausted from over-functioning and ready to reclaim their energy.
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Nervous System Regulation: Moving past intellectual understanding to clear the physical loops of chronic anxiety using EFT Tapping, Qigong, and somatic tracking.
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Somatic & Younger Parts Work: Safely gently untangling the behavioral and relational patterns that keep you feeling stuck in your life and career.
Note: These short-term containers are a complementary, intensive approach and are not a replacement for long-term psychiatric care.
Path 2: Corporate, Higher Education, & Team Facilitation
I partner with organizations, academic departments, and businesses to nurture their most vital resource: their people.
Sustainable leadership requires environments where teams can slow down, communicate clearly, and reduce structural burnout. By blending clinical counseling insights with structured compassionate communication frameworks, I help your team dismantle defensive habits and establish clean professional boundaries without creating organizational friction.
Ways to Partner Together:
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Customized Team Workshops & Keynotes: Practical, skill-building sessions on Nervous System Architecture, Navigating Secondary Trauma, and Relational Intelligence.
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1-to-1 Employee Wellness Sessions: Focused, confidential stress-reduction and somatic mapping containers for your staff.
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Retreat Facilitation & Content Development: Collaborative design to ensure your next organizational gathering leaves participants deeply restored and aligned.
Taking the First Step: Let’s Connect
Because I protect the integrity of my practice and want to ensure your time is deeply honored, I host a mindful screening process. Real transformation requires the right timing, the right focus, and a genuine energetic match.
The first step to working with me is to book a free, required 15-minute Consultation Call.
Together, we will look at what you or your organization needs right now and ensure that this is the right season and the right framing for us to partner together. If we are an aligned match, we will open up your container from there.
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Restoring the Rhythm: Patterns We Untangle Together
When you are an over-functioning professional, leader, or caretaker, exhaustion doesn't just affect your mind—it mirrors itself in your body, your relationships, and your decision-making.
Our work is designed to gently interrupt these familiar loops:
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A Crowded Mind: Worry and racing thoughts take up valuable space, making true rest feel impossible.
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The "Stuck" Loop: Feeling like you’ve done so much deep personal work, yet your somatic progress feels stalled.
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Strained Communication: Conversations feel complicated, leaving you drained when trying to speak your truth honestly and calmly.
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Environmental Overwhelm: Navigating a high sensitivity to your surroundings and absorbing other people's emotions.
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Flickering Self-Trust: Facing difficulty making clear decisions, weighing your choices, and trusting your inner knowing.
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Tense Transitions: Moving through career changes or life shifts where uncertainty feels incredibly heavy to carry.
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Chronic Burnout: Experiencing secondary trauma or vicarious exhaustion daily, with a deep desire to safely release it from your nervous system.
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The Self-Sacrifice Trap: Wanting to deeply serve others, but doing so at the cost of your own creativity, vitality, and joy.
The Mentorship & Speaking Tracks:
Deepening Our Work
Beyond individual healing and organizational consulting, my 20 years of clinical and energetic practice allow me to offer highly specialized containers for deep professional growth and collective education.
1. Signature Speaking & Workshop Topics
I offer customized workshops, employee wellness sessions, and keynotes for organizations committed to equity, sustainable care, and personal empowerment:
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Navigating Secondary Trauma: Boundary management and sustainable care frameworks for therapists, educators, and medical professionals.
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Nervous System Architecture for Teams: Practical, somatic tools (including mindfulness and breathwork) to reduce organizational anxiety and chronic stress.
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The Anatomy of Self-Trust: Reclaiming agency, shifting codependent dynamics, and establishing clean professional boundaries.
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Relational Intelligence in the Workplace: Blending clinical insights with compassionate communication to help participants express operational needs clearly and dismantle defensive communication habits without creating organizational friction.
2.Advanced Professional Mentorship & Apprenticeship
A dedicated, high-integrity mentoring container designed explicitly for fellow helping professionals, educators, and energy workers who want to evolve their craft without self-sacrifice.
This structured container is tailored to support your professional evolution and covers:
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Sustainable Care Frameworks: Learning to utilize your natural intuitive and facilitation gifts while maintaining clear boundaries against burnout and vicarious trauma.
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Clinical & Energetic Integration: For practitioners looking to safely blend grounded, counseling-informed techniques with somatic and energetic modalities.
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Formal Reiki Apprenticeship: Structured, disciplined mentoring for those seeking to begin or return to their Reiki practice under a rigorous professional standard.
Are We an Aligned Fit? Honoring Safety and Readiness
Because I deeply respect your energy and the integrity of this work, I treat our beginnings with immense care. Real, lasting transformation requires the right timing, the right focus, and a genuine match.
If you are ready to partner with an experienced clinician who honors your agency, offers complete transparency, and provides a soft space for nonjudgment, we could be a beautiful fit. Our work together is designed to help you look plainly at your behavioral patterns, build sustainable accountability, and experience a grounded balance that you can maintain on your own.
A Note on Psychological Safety
Because our work deeply engages the subconscious and the nervous system, these brief therapeutic containers are structured as a complementary, integrative approach. To ensure your system can safely integrate this deep somatic work, these sessions are best suited for individuals who are:
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Emotionally Resourced: Possessing a stable foundational baseline to process deeper patterns.
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Present and Rested: Fully rested and completely free of non-prescribed substances for 24–48 hours prior to our sessions.
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Stable: Not currently navigating an acute crisis, active addiction, or experiencing psychosis.
If you are currently navigating a tender or urgent season that requires intensive stabilization, I highly encourage you to work with the licensed medical or traditional mental health providers who can offer the dedicated care you deserve.
Note: These short-term containers are an intensive, focused framework and are not a replacement for long-term psychiatric care or ongoing traditional psychotherapy.
If this feels like the right season for your nervous system to step into a grounded, supportive container, let's explore it together.
