Dr. Karena Valkyrie, LPC

Dr. Karena Valkyrie brings more than 20 years of experience combining university teaching with direct work as a licensed professional counselor. She supports individuals facing a range of concerns including relationship and intimacy challenges, anger, depression, coping with life changes, parenting and family dynamics, and issues related to LGBT identity. Her practice also addresses more specific areas such as abandonment and attachment difficulties, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, infidelity, grief and end-of-life concerns, and the search for life purpose and self-love.

She approaches therapy as a collaborative member of each clients growth team, helping set and revise realistic goals while using science-informed strategies tailored to the individual. She emphasizes flexibility rather than one-size-fits-all solutions and aims to teach practical coping skills and strategies that facilitate ongoing progress. As an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - she draws on training and experience to guide this work.

Known as a lifelong learner, she describes herself as caring, sensitive, and empathic, and she values the courage people bring to therapy. She is an LGBTQ+ ally and remains respectful of diverse spiritual and cultural perspectives. New clients are welcomed with an emphasis on reducing shame and judgment as they begin the process of change.

Attachment and Client-Centered Care Delivered Online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationship patterns shape connection, trust, and emotional responses. It helps people working through abandonment, attachment wounds, intimacy problems, and patterns that affect close relationships by exploring emotions and rebuilding secure ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the clients own experience and strengths, offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the therapist reflects and supports the persons capacity for insight and growth - useful for concerns like depression, life transitions, self-worth, and communication challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dr. Karena Valkyrie works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods align with their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts strategies over time as progress and circumstances evolve.

Online therapy with her is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, maintain continuity during life changes, and access support from familiar surroundings while working with a licensed professional.