Karen Vigeland, LCSW

Karen Vigeland is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who provides individual counseling to adults. She focuses on helping people manage symptoms like anxiety, depression, stress, and issues related to relationships and identity. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at making therapy easy to follow on a busy schedule.

Karen uses cognitive behavioral techniques alongside a client-centered stance to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and emotionally focused work when emotions feel overwhelming. Sessions emphasize strengths and small, doable changes rather than jargon or long theories.

Her approach begins with listening. Karen helps clients name what matters to them, spot patterns that get in the way, and set clear short-term goals. She offers concrete tools for coping with mood shifts, stress, and difficult relationships so people can try new ways of responding between sessions.

With nine years of experience, Karen has worked in varied settings and with diverse adults. She explains concepts in plain language and keeps sessions practical. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

People who choose her can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through problems and practice new skills. She supports clients in building balance and using their strengths to manage life changes and ongoing challenges.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Karen blends cognitive behavioral approaches with client-centered care to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT focuses on practical exercises and short-term goals that often translate well to remote sessions, such as tracking thoughts, testing assumptions, and practicing new responses between meetings.

She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT-derived skills can be practiced in the moment and reviewed on video or over text to reinforce change. Emotionally focused work helps people notice and name core feelings in relationships, which can be explored safely in online conversation.

Choosing the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that suit your situation, and adjust the plan as you go. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most useful and practical for daily life.

Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing reflection or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping focus on progress and real-world practice.