Karen Haggard, LCSW
Licensed in Illinois · 25 years in practice
Karen Haggard is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strain.
License and registration
- LCSW, Illinois
- 149010863 · expires November 2027
- LCSW, Texas
- 115772 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1225277916 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
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About Karen
Karen Haggard is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. She brings 25 years of experience and a calm, straightforward style. She aims to make each session feel practical and manageable.
Karen works with adults on issues like grief, addiction, parenting challenges, and questions about identity and intimacy. Her work focuses on clear goals and building real skills for daily life.
Background and approach
She uses accessible, evidence-based methods to help people manage strong emotions and improve communication. Sessions often include practice tools for stress, sleep, and coping with life changes. Karen pays attention to past relationships and attachment patterns that shape current behavior.
She helps people identify patterns such as avoidance, codependency, and fear of commitment, and then tries new ways of relating. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care histories, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns. Her background blends client-centered listening with structured approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies and acceptance-based work.
This combination lets sessions stay warm and person-focused while still producing concrete change. Karen draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotions feel overwhelming. Sessions are offered in English and can be done from Illinois or online for international clients.
She supports people dealing with career strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and intimacy-related issues. The goal is steady progress and clearer choices for everyday living.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Karen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Karen names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Karen’s approaches translate to online work
Karen uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, life changes, and when someone feels stuck by negative thinking.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That work helps with intimacy concerns, fear of abandonment, and communication problems by tracing how bonds influence reactions now.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Karen will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. Together they decide whether to emphasize ACT, attachment work, skill-building from DBT, or a mix that fits the situation.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers voice only, and chat or messaging suits short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or travel while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
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Questions people ask
What concerns can Karen help with?
She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship issues. Other areas include grief, addictions, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and intimacy-related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and practical with a focus on clear, usable skills. Conversations are person-centered and aim to change everyday habits that cause distress.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 25 years of clinical work to her practice helping people navigate major life transitions and emotional wounds.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - based in Illinois with licenses noted for IL and TX LCSW.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are offered?
Therapy can be done via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist selection and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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