Karen Palmer

Karen Palmer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with 27 years of experience in mental health. She maintains a practice outside Pittsburgh and primarily works with adults and couples, while also having past experience with teenagers and their families. Her training includes a range of clinical methods that inform a flexible, individualized approach to care.

Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, codependency, communication and control problems, infidelity, isolation, and forgiveness among others. This breadth allows her to address both acute challenges and ongoing life transitions.

Karen draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, client-centered approaches, and mindfulness therapy to tailor work to each person and situation. She emphasizes the importance of attending to emotional health alongside physical health and supports exploration of how thoughts, work, and relationships influence well-being.