Karen McDougal, LPC

Karen McDougal is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 14 years of clinical experience supporting children, teens, and adults through a wide range of mental health and life challenges. She works from a person-centered, trauma-informed perspective, blending mindfulness, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused therapy to help clients define and reach meaningful goals for fuller, more satisfying lives.

Her scope of practice includes common mental health concerns such as anxiety and depression, as well as stress management, parenting challenges, self-esteem work, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, anger management, bipolar disorder, and intimacy-related difficulties. She also assists clients with career exploration and planning, coping with life transitions, and addressing compassion fatigue and other work-related stressors.

Karen has provided crisis assessments and interventions and has developed and implemented treatment and discharge plans across multiple settings, including hospital units, outpatient clinics, and in-home agencies. She has delivered education on parenting behavioral strategies and healthy relationship skills, and has facilitated social skills groups, psycho-educational anger management classes, and programs on healthy dating for teens and pre-teens. Her experience also includes conducting observations and contributing to functional behavioral analysis reports, collecting data, and making treatment recommendations for children with behavioral disturbances.

Throughout her work, Karen emphasizes collaboration and practical strategies, guiding clients toward achievable steps that support resilience, healthier patterns, and improved functioning in daily life.