Karen Crawley-Buckholtz, MD, LCPC, LPC

Karen Crawley-Buckholtz brings two decades of clinical experience to her work with adults and families, offering support for stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and a wide range of other concerns. She holds a BA in psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an MA in counseling psychology from Bowie State University, and she is a Certified Grief Informed Professional. Karen is licensed to practice in Maryland and Virginia and carries the credentials MD, LCPC, and LPC - MD indicating a Doctor of Medicine, LCPC meaning a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and LPC meaning a Licensed Professional Counselor, each reflecting professional training and state authorization to provide mental health care.

Her clinical background includes extensive training in grief and loss, perinatal and postpartum depression, hospice care, illness and disability issues, cultural diversity and special populations, and work with first responders, active duty service members, and veterans. She works with concerns ranging from eating and sleeping problems to parenting, career stress, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Karen describes her approach as eclectic and client-centered, adapting therapeutic methods to fit each person’s needs while helping clients identify and build on their own strengths.

She emphasizes respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care, and frames therapy as a collaborative process in which the client’s goals and lived experience guide treatment. Taking the first step can be difficult, and Karen is available to support individuals ready to begin that process.