About Karen
Karen Epple is a warm, experienced therapist who listens without judgment. She helps people who feel anxious, depressed, overwhelmed, or stuck to find practical ways forward. Karen is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing from Florida and brings decades of experience to sessions.
Her approach is straightforward and kind. She uses simple tools to manage stress and improve sleep, and she helps people facing grief, caregiving strain, or major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often include problem-solving, goal-setting, and breathing or mindfulness practices you can use between meetings. Karen draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more useful ones. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set small, achievable goals and Mindfulness Therapy to build steady attention and calm.
These methods are practical and aimed at day-to-day relief. Over a 30-year career Karen has worked in varied settings and supported people with mood disorders, self-esteem concerns, ADHD, and issues related to aging and hospice care. She also assists people dealing with domestic violence recovery, family problems, smoking or vaping cessation, and women’s issues.
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted. Appointments run in the late afternoon and evening on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. If you want a gentle, experienced guide to help you move toward a more manageable life, Karen offers steady, practical support.
Approaches that fit busy lives and real problems
Karen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease symptoms of depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Mindfulness Therapy is used to build present-moment awareness and simple stress-reduction skills that patients can use between sessions. Solution-Focused Therapy focuses on small, practical goals and steps you can take now to move toward a better day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Karen will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than imposing one way of working. Together you decide whether to focus on skill-building, grief work, or short-term problem solving and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls let you use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or when writing helps you collect your thoughts. These options make it easier to keep regular contact, try short exercises between meetings, and fit therapy into an evening routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English