Karen Conklin, LMFT

Karen Conklin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 20 years of clinical experience. She holds a BA in Advertising and an MA in Clinical Psychology, and brings both professional training and broad personal experience to her work. Having lived on both coasts and in the Midwest, and as a wife and mother of a son and daughter, she blends life perspective with clinical expertise.

Her background includes work as a middle school counselor, psychotherapist supporting war veterans, and a mediator for marriage and divorce matters. Over the course of her career she has helped thousands of people navigate grief and loss, stress and anxiety, depression and anger, and challenges with self-esteem and negative self-talk. She emphasizes shifting from fear-based patterns toward responses rooted in self-compassion and growth.

Karen uses practical, readily attainable tools to support change and growth. Her clinical approaches include client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and the Gottman Method for relationship work. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career issues, coping with life changes, relationship and parenting challenges, grief, anger, depression, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress. Additional focuses include communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose and midlife transitions, mood disorders, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, self-love, women’s issues, and workplace difficulties.

Committed to compassionate support, Karen provides structured guidance and practical strategies to help people move toward the life they want to be living.