Karlene Harrison, LMSW

Karlene Harrison is a licensed master social worker with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship difficulties. Her style is calm and collaborative and she aims to help people find clearer ways to manage life’s challenges.

Karlene draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and mindfulness techniques. She focuses on practical steps that change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. Sessions often include learning to reframe difficult thoughts and practicing new behaviors between meetings.

She also brings experience supporting people through loss, caregiving stress, and aging-related concerns, including situations with family members who have dementia. That background helps when grief and life transition issues feel overwhelming or confusing.

Karlene uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when they fit a client’s needs. Her approach balances listening with concrete strategies so conversations lead to usable next steps. She encourages people to start where they are and move at a workable pace.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s goals. Karlene helps clients set realistic expectations, build skills for daily life, and find ways to express feelings safely. She invites people to try different ways of connecting to see what works best for them.

CBT and Collaborative Care Online

Karlene commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered methods to help people change patterns of thinking and build everyday skills. CBT focuses on identifying and testing thoughts that contribute to anxiety or low mood and practicing small behavior changes that improve daily functioning. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, listening approach that helps people feel heard and decide what goals matter most.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotion regulation or intense reactions are causing problems. DBT skills teach practical techniques for managing strong feelings, tolerating distress, and improving communication in tense moments. Together these approaches give a mix of concrete tools and a supportive space to try them out.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Karlene will discuss your goals, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative method lets you test strategies and keep what works while dropping what doesn’t.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for longer conversations and practicing new skills, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.