Karen Sollberger
Calm, goal-focused support for life's changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Karen
Karen Sollberger is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She has nine years of experience in clinical settings and focuses on practical help for everyday struggles. She makes space for people to talk about stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions without feeling judged.
Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. She listens first and works with clients to set clear, achievable goals. Sessions often include problem-solving, coping skills, and techniques to manage mood and motivation.
Background and approach
Karen also addresses issues such as grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, addictions, and ADHD. She pays attention to how relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and communication problems affect daily life. Her work includes support for those navigating identity issues, including LGBT concerns.
She draws on several therapeutic methods to fit each person’s needs. Techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy help change unhelpful thoughts. Client-centered work focuses on what matters most to the individual.
Mindfulness and solution-focused tools often appear in short-term plans. In sessions she aims to be practical and encouraging. Parents reading this will find language that is plain and direct.
The goal is to build small, steady steps toward better coping and clearer choices.
Practical approaches for online care and goal-focused work
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience first. In this approach the therapist listens closely and follows the client's concerns, helping them set goals and decide what matters most in sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness techniques help people notice stressful thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed by them, which can support coping with grief, burnout, or sudden life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions work when video isn't possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or to reinforce strategies between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep steady progress over time.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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