Karen Stockham, LPCC

Karen Stockham is an LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) based in New Mexico with 24 years of practice. She focuses on practical, action-oriented therapy that helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and other life changes. Karen aims to create straightforward sessions where people can set goals and make steady progress.

She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings. She also draws on client-centered methods to make space for the person's experience and on DBT skills for emotional regulation when needed. These approaches help with mood concerns, worry, impulse control, and patterns that keep problems recurring.

Sessions are discussion-based and goal-focused. Karen emphasizes clear steps you can try between sessions and practical skills for coping, communication, and problem solving. She offers supports for issues like grief, trauma, addiction concerns, eating and sleep struggles, and parenting stress.

Her background includes mediation, anger management, and conflict resolution work. That experience informs sessions that focus on clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and workable solutions for recurring problems. Karen also brings experience addressing issues such as codependency, commitment and intimacy concerns, and life purpose questions.

Outside of work she is a parent and grandparent who enjoys photography, outdoor activity, and volunteering. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible appointment options.

How Karen’s approaches translate to online therapy

Karen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT sessions often include identifying thoughts, testing them, and practicing different behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person's own goals and perspective and creates space for their experience to guide each session. When emotions run high or impulsive behaviors are a concern, she may use Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they shape a plan that may blend CBT techniques, client-centered listening, and DBT skills to match evolving needs.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates, practice skills between sessions, or hold brief check-ins that fit a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or family commitments.