In her 18th year as a licensed clinical psychologist, Karen has practiced privately, specializing in individual and group (process, grief, and mindfulness) psychotherapies. She has worked with individuals and groups who are improving their resilience and self-care through depression, anxiety, trauma, loss, and relational difficulties, to name a few. Her clients appreciate her ability to be with them with empathy, gentleness, and humor through difficult seasons in their lives.

​

The mission at SCML aligns with Karen’s life practice of offering healing “regardless of faith tradition, to grow and learn through intentional practice and experience, moving slowly, with gentleness, to a place of courageous curiosity … accepting hardship as a pathway to peace ... embracing our common humanity and our capacity for living a life of love.” She is grounded in the Christian faith but open to the wisdom multiple faith traditions offer. She is deeply committed to enhancing and deepening mental, spiritual, and physical health. 

​

In 2021, Karen incorporated nature-based interventions into her practice, adapting and evolving through the pandemic to provide safe and connected meeting settings. Nature settings provided additional healing pathways to physical, mental, and spiritual wellness. Her venture, Fresh Eyes~Mindful Nature Walks, was cultivated to offer preventative and holistic well-being offerings to the Tucker community through Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction strategies, contemplative practice, breath work, and embodied exercises rooted in science. This venture continued and was informed by a childhood spent outside, experiencing and later researching the scientific benefits of nature offerings in group settings for emotional and physical well-being.

 

Developmentally (because we are constantly changing and growing), Karen is at a stage in her part-time private practice, Fresh Eyes offerings, and with her maturing kids (ages 16 and 12), there is more room to care for and be with others. Coming alongside Kay Stewart, Robby Carroll, and Lindsey Thames, with support from the SCML board, will be a welcome relief after practicing independently. She is ready to return to Shallowford and expand the sphere of compassion and care with these knowledgeable, soulful individuals as a facilitator for healing circles.

​

*To learn more about Karen’s therapeutic approach, please see some of the trainings she has attended recently: 

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction: 2 Day Training Intensive with Elana Rosenbaum, LCSW 

• Building Resilience Through Mindfulness and Acceptance in Daily Life with Jaclyn Schuon, Psy.D. And Jeffrey Henderson, Psy.D.

• The Neuroplasticity of Resilience with Diana Gordick, Ph.D.

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Detail: Teaching the Emotional Regulation Skills with Lauren Edwards, Ph.D. And Noelle Santorelli, Ph.D.

• Relational Challenges in Complex Trauma with Kathy Steele

• Compassion Meditation: Exploring Compassion as a Commitment and a Practice with Kay Stewart of Stillwaters Mindfulness

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction: 8 week course with Kay Stewart

• Mindful Self-Compassion with Hannah Hawkins-Esther

• Past Board Member of The Atlanta Group Psychotherapy Society

​

​