Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
How Karen works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Karen
Karen Egertson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and the fallout from trauma. She also supports people facing depression, bipolar mood challenges, work strain, and parenting pressures.
Her approach begins with listening to each person's story and noticing strengths. She treats clients as the expert on their own life and helps them build tools that fit their situation.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps, clear goals, and steady progress rather than jargon. Many people come for help with relationships, grief, career shifts, or the special demands faced by first responders. She also works with concerns around self esteem, motivation, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
When anger or stress is present, she helps people find ways to express emotions safely and reduce repeated flare-ups. Therapy sessions use conversational techniques and problem-solving. Sessions often include skill practice, planning for difficult moments, and checking what helps between meetings.
Karen emphasizes small, manageable changes that add up over time. She offers help in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started requires a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy button.
Costs vary with location and the subscription model can be canceled at any time.
What Karen works with
Everything Karen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Karen's practice.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Many of the techniques she uses focus on building skills and changing unhelpful patterns. Cognitive approaches help people notice thought patterns that increase anxiety or anger and practice different responses to stressful situations. These methods are useful for stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and managing reactions in the moment.Behavioral strategies emphasize action and practice. That can include creating stepped plans for facing difficult tasks, rehearsing alternative behaviors, and tracking what works. Such work is helpful for improving motivation, managing symptoms of bipolar disorder or ADHD, and reducing repeated anger responses.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review goals and preferences and then recommend techniques to try. Together they monitor progress and adjust approaches based on what helps most for daily life.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for in-depth conversations and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging works for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
Questions people ask about Karen
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, anger, trauma, depression, bipolar mood concerns, grief, relationship strain, career transitions, and parenting challenges.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is conversational and goal-oriented. She listens for strengths, teaches practical skills, and helps clients try small changes between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 17 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns, including first responder issues and compassion fatigue.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in California.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.