About Karen
Karen Marconi is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 13 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction concerns. She focuses on building confidence, motivation, and practical steps toward feeling better. Karen presents a calm, straightforward style that aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming.
She uses a client-centered approach that starts by listening to each person’s story and strengths. From there she combines tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thoughts and from solution-focused methods to create small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is used when people feel stuck and want help finding reasons to change. Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-oriented. Karen helps people break down big problems into manageable parts and practices new skills together in session.
She also draws on narrative techniques to help people reframe painful experiences and see different paths forward. Her background includes work with people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and mood disorders including bipolar conditions. She supports clients dealing with codependency, control issues, substance use, obsessive behaviors, and the everyday effects of shame or isolation.
Karen offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. People should expect a collaborative process where therapist and client set goals and track progress over time.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths and helps people feel heard while they figure out next steps. It’s useful for building self-esteem and motivation by reflecting what matters most to the individual.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and OCD symptoms.
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative way to resolve mixed feelings about change. It helps people find their own reasons to make adjustments, which is especially useful for addictions and motivation struggles.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging fit quick check-ins and shorter communications. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, school, or family routines and to keep progress moving between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English