Karen Murphree
Compassionate, holistic mental health support
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas, Washington, Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Karen
Karen Murphree is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of practice. She brings practical, down-to-earth care and a strength-based outlook. Karen writes plainly and listens carefully to help people find clearer words for painful or confusing experiences.
Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, and sexual and identity matters. She blends talk-based therapy with creative and somatic techniques when useful. Sessions may include guided imagery, music, movement, breath work, or simple rituals alongside proven approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR.
Background and approach
Karen describes her style as collaborative and grounded. She aims to meet each person where they are and to build on what already works in their life. She also offers gentle education and resource suggestions to support learning between sessions.
Her background includes training as an LPN, graduate coursework in natural and alternative healing, and a health coaching course that inform her interest in food, sleep, and lifestyle factors that affect mood. She uses that practical knowledge to discuss everyday routines that can help feeling better.
People who prefer a holistic mix of practical strategies and creative self-expression often find her approach accessible. Karen emphasizes respect, curiosity, and kindness in the room while helping people notice limiting beliefs and small changes that can make life easier.
Online approaches that fit everyday life
Attachment-Based Therapy helps clients understand how early relationships shape current patterns. It focuses on connection and safety, and can be useful for worries about closeness, trust, and repeated relationship patterns.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room. The therapist offers empathy, reflection, and support while the client leads the pace and topics, which can help when words are hard to find or shame makes sharing difficult.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen collaborates with each person to notice what feels most helpful and adjusts methods over time. She draws on both practical skills and expressive tools so clients can try what fits their needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see facial cues and use visual materials. Phone sessions remove the need for video while keeping voice connection. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, real-time coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. Together these options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Washington, Missouri, Montana, Idaho, Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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