Karen Murphree

Karen Murphree is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience working with adults and couples on concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, relationship and intimacy issues, and coping with life changes.

Earlier in her career she trained and worked as a licensed practical nurse and later completed a year of health coaching training. Those experiences inform her interest in the food-and-mood connection and the relationship between physical and mental well-being. She has also taken graduate-level courses in complementary and alternative medicine and maintains a strong interest in holistic approaches to healing.

Her practice is eclectic and draws from multiple therapeutic modalities, favoring a whole-person, strength-based orientation rather than a strictly illness-focused model. She may incorporate sensory and creative methods such as music, art, movement, or aromatherapy to engage more than just the cognitive process and to support broader healing.

Murphree seeks to provide genuine acceptance of who a person is in the present while helping them clarify who they would like to become and taking collaborative steps toward those goals. She often quotes Thomas Edison: “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work,” and values working with clients to discover strategies that do work for them.

If someone believes they might work well with Karen Murphree, she welcomes contact to explore therapy together. If the connection does not feel right, she encourages continuing the search for another qualified professional and commends the courage it takes to seek support.