Karen Kavaloski, LPC, LPCC

Karen Kavaloski is a licensed counselor who has built a diverse practice from a foundation of long professional and personal experience. She made a career change after nearly three decades in nursing and became a counselor in 2009, later holding LPC and LPCC credentials - LPC stands for Licensed Professional Counselor and LPCC stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Her life as a Marine spouse and a parent of three, along with five grandchildren, has shaped her perspective on family dynamics and caregiving. She also draws on lived experience caring for a son and a grandchild who are severely autistic and on her experience as a cancer survivor, which inform her understanding of long-term stress and resilience.

Karen has spent 17 years working primarily with adults affected by trauma and substance use, with additional experience treating adolescents and providing prison reentry counseling for people and families with histories of incarceration. Her clinical work covers a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addiction, relationships, grief, parenting, trauma and abuse, and career-related issues. She integrates a variety of therapeutic methods - such as focused solution work, internal systems approaches, mindfulness and compassion-based techniques, cognitive and cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical interventions, emotional freedom techniques, and neurolinguistic methods - tailoring interventions to each person she sees.

Beyond clinical practice, she holds a Master of Business Administration and a Doctorate in Christian Ministries, and she is the author of the Sacred Self Workbook Series. Outside of work she enjoys reading, meditation and prayer, gardening, and daily light exercise, and she aims to support people in building stronger foundations for themselves and their families.