Karen is a highly effective Licensed Mental Health Counselor with extensive experience co-creating healing and growth with her clients.

Karen offers mental health services to clients who are seriously committed to fully participating in their therapy journey through intensive counseling. Clients who are ready, willing, and able to commit to themselves to allow time for their personal growth, what Karen often refers to as “sacred soul work”.

Karen has a Bachelor of Arts double degree in Psychology and Sociology; a Master’s degree in Education: Community Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Superior; and a Master’s of Arts degree in Leadership & Learning ~ Organizational Development from Jacksonville University. For thirty some years, Karen has dedicated herself to “the human service field” assisting others in finding ways to live their healthiest most fulfilled inspired lives.

“My mission is to lovingly guide others in co-creating growth and healing in the mental health areas they wish to explore. I’m committed to honoring each person’s unique sacred therapeutic journey.”

You can expect a compassionate approach with acceptance, humor, and firm gentle nudges from Karen as you focus on developing greater self-awareness, explore personal insights, and learn research-based coping skills and time-tested healing strategies.

You can also expect to take responsibility for your growth with intentional guidance from Karen. This is your sacred journey. Commit to yourself and do the work.

In the therapy sessions, you and Karen will identify and explore symptoms. core issues, and their current meanings; process thoughts, feelings and beliefs; look for healthy and unhealthy behavioral patterns; develop solution-oriented skills and strategies; and co-create a therapeutic plan for you to continue making lasting improvements that will not only help you feel better now; but in time, make impactful differences in your life and the life of others ~ if you do the work.

Karen is your trusted therapeutic partner as you enter this leg of your mental health journey. She’ll be there with you to help clarify and expand on your past and present experiences, and assist you in planning for your future aims. She’ll listen. She’ll provide you with research based techniques and strategies for you to use when making the desired changes necessary for you to succeed in your life ~ if you do the work.

“ Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Jung

Change is scary. Facing the unknown takes courage. Are you willing to face the changes you know you desire to make?

Are you serious about your own growth?

Are you able to fully commit your time, your resources, and your energy to do the work?

This is your sacred journey, your life.

Sacred Journey’s counseling services are open to folks who are all in! The counseling services are designed for people who are ready, willing, and able to commit to their own mental, emotional, and spiritual health. We’ll focus on exploring past and present concerns and patterns of behavior; identifying and reframing faulty thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that are getting in your way; work on healing and resolving past traumas and hurts; and concentrating of self-awareness for continuing personal growth. If you do the work, you can achieve lasting results and success in your personal, social, relational, educational and/or occupational areas of your life. Your life can be different.

You have the right to live your life your best way ~ in peace, contentment, & fulfillment .

You get to live without depressed or negative thoughts ruling your day.

You can live without overwhelming anxiety and paralyzing fear stopping you from fully experiencing who you are and sharing the real full you with the world.

You can choose mental, emotional, and spiritual health. You have the inner power to do so. You can choose a new path.

Are you: Ready? Willing? Able?

If the answer is YES! Then, let’s get going … The time is now!

for adults and teens (14+)

individuals, couples, groups

Addressing:

Anxiety, Compassion fatigue, & Burn-out

Trauma & PTSD

Grief

Performance & Self-efficacy Improvement

Academic & Occupational Concerns

Career & Life Transitions

Interpersonal & Relationship Issues

Psychotherapy Integration of:

Person-Centered

Ecotherapy and Animal-assisted

Emotion-focused & Strength-based

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral (MBCT)

EMDR trained

Solution-focused Brief Therapy

Brain-based Strategies

Mind, Body, Spirit Perspective and other research-based techniques as needed

Meet Obi. Obi is following in his big brother Brody's paws in becoming a trained animal-assisted therapy dog. Karen has used animal assisted therapy for numerous years in her practice. “I am forever amazed at the human-animal connection and how much healing and comfort it provides for clients of all ages.” ~Karen

For more information, contact info@counseling-sacredjourney.com.

Ecotherapy is a new service that Sacred Journey Counseling is currently providing. Ecotherapy is a type of therapeutic treatment that simply applies nature. Being out in nature provides clients the calming, positive effect and mindfulness opportunities to enhance the promotion of mental health. There are numerous approaches to nature-based therapy which include the engagement with plants, animals. wilderness or water settings, nature-focused arts and crafts, or simply play in natural environments. For more information, contact info@counseling-sacredjourney.com. Group opportunities are available.

The rate for individual and couples therapy is:

60 mins | $135

30 mins | $75

120 minutes for Ecotherapy | $250

60 minutes $150

(if more than 30 minutes from the telehealth base; Group rates vary)

Sliding scale is available for self-pay clients. For more information, please contact: info@counseling-sacredjourney.com

*Note: Now accepting Cigna and Unitedhealth.