Karen Vigeland , LCSW

Karen Vigeland is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who delivers individual counseling to adult clients across a range of ages and life circumstances. With nine years of clinical experience working with diverse populations in multiple settings, she emphasizes a client-centered, insight-oriented, and strengths-based approach that honors each person's unique story and resources.

Her work focuses on helping people recognize underlying patterns, build on existing strengths, and make practical adjustments to thoughts and behaviors to support healthier, more balanced ways of coping. She has experience addressing issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship concerns, and other life challenges, and she adapts interventions to fit each person’s needs.

Vigeland aims to foster a nonjudgmental and accepting therapeutic relationship that supports personal growth and practical change. She encourages people to seek support when they are ready and works collaboratively to identify goals and pathways toward greater well-being.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Client-centered therapy places the person and their experience at the center of the work, offering empathy, active listening, and support to help people explore values and make meaningful changes; it is especially useful for building self-awareness and strengthening coping resources. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and reshaping unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical strategies and skills, making it effective for addressing anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines skill-building in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness with acceptance-based strategies, which can help people manage intense emotions and improve relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Karen Vigeland works collaboratively with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and she tailors techniques from these approaches to fit the individual. This collaborative process helps identify the best path forward rather than assuming a one-size-fits-all method.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for scheduling and continuity of care. These options make it possible to access licensed professionals from home or work, adapt session formats to what feels most comfortable, and maintain momentum between sessions when needed.