Karen Wassom Hammond, LPCC

Karen Wassom Hammond is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) practicing in Kentucky with 12 years of professional experience. She focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep difficulties, motivation and self-esteem, and supports people managing depression, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related issues. She also provides marital and premarital counseling and offers faith-based counseling when clients request that approach.

Karen aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored safely and honestly. Her work attends to blended family dynamics, codependency, communication problems, forgiveness, infidelity, life transitions such as divorce and midlife changes, and other interpersonal stresses that affect wellbeing.

She integrates client-centered principles and draws from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to tailor care to each person. Karen recognizes that beginning therapy takes courage and honors that first step while collaborating with clients to set goals and develop practical strategies for clearer communication, healthier relationships, and greater everyday functioning.

Online therapeutic approaches for relationship and emotional support

Karen draws on Client-Centered Therapy, where the focus is on creating a respectful, accepting environment that helps people articulate their concerns and discover their own solutions. This approach is useful for improving self-esteem, exploring life purpose, and addressing communication or relationship struggles.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT can be practical for addressing symptoms of depression, sleep problems, motivation challenges, and many everyday stressors.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is employed when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are priorities; it offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, reducing reactivity, and improving relationships. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - Karen will work with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences.

Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging provide flexibility that can fit around work, family, and other commitments. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from anywhere in Kentucky, and try different formats until the best fit is found with a licensed professional.