Karen Haggard, LCSW
Illinois · 25 years in practice
Karen Haggard is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
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
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Karen
Karen Haggard is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person. Karen focuses on practical changes that reduce everyday pain and make life easier to handle.
She often guides clients through relationship problems, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and career stress. She also supports people facing addiction, bipolar mood shifts, ADHD, chronic illness, or caregiving burden.
Background and approach
Her practice pays attention to identity issues including LGBT concerns, body image, and community belonging. Karen blends several therapeutic tools to match what a client needs that day. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build committed action.
Cognitive-behavioral methods help shift unhelpful thoughts and routines. Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns affect current relationships. Sessions are straightforward and focused on skills you can use between meetings.
Karen helps people practice communication, set boundaries, manage anger, and improve sleep and self-esteem. She also helps with grief, abandonment wounds, adoption and foster care challenges, and blended family stress. Karen holds LCSW credentials in Illinois and Texas and has worked across many settings over her career.
She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Therapy is available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging and can be scheduled to fit varied routines.
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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- 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 therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. It is useful for stress, life changes, and persistent worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and behavior change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they connect and communicate with others.Picking the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they will adjust the plan over time so sessions remain focused and practical.
Online therapy can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship work. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing contact and quick coping support between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on clear skills and steady progress.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can I bring to therapy?
Common concerns include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, sleep problems, parenting strain, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and career stress.
What is the therapy style like?
The approach is practical and person-centered, combining tools from ACT, CBT, DBT, attachment work, and client-centered therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.
How much experience does the therapist have?
Karen has 25 years of clinical experience working in a range of settings and with many types of emotional and life challenges.
Where is the therapist licensed and located?
She holds LCSW credentials in Illinois and Texas and is based in Illinois for practice purposes.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English, and international clients are accepted.
What formats are available for sessions?
Therapy can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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