Karen Wassom Hammond
Compassionate, practical support for personal challenges
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Karen
Karen Wassom Hammond is a Kentucky-licensed professional counselor who focuses on relationship and parenting concerns. She listens carefully and helps people sort through issues like intimacy, low self-esteem, sleep problems, mood concerns, and motivation. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and supportive for someone who may be nervous about asking for help.
In sessions Karen builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She blends practical skills with steady listening so people can try small changes that fit their life. When requested, she also includes faith-based perspectives alongside other approaches. Her work draws on approaches that teach concrete tools and explore emotions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with workable alternatives. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and change how they respond in close relationships. With 12 years of experience and the LPCC credential, Karen practices from Kentucky and offers a range of session formats.
She invites curiosity and collaboration in therapy, guiding decisions about goals and steps forward rather than prescribing one path. Her style is straightforward, patient, and focused on usable strategies. Clients who want practical coping skills, clearer communication, or a grounded place to process tough feelings will find her approach accessible.
She encourages starting small and building on progress one conversation at a time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, listening environment where the client sets the pace and goals. It helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions rather than following a strict plan.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that lead to distress. It is useful for sleep problems, low mood, anxiety, and motivation by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful to the client. Decisions about techniques are made collaboratively rather than imposed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work between meetings. Video and phone calls allow real-time conversations, while chat and messaging provide shorter check-ins and homework support, helping people maintain momentum as they practice new skills.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
Next step
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