As a gifted therapeutic guide, Karen works closely with family members impacted by trauma, grief, addictive processes, and mental health challenges. As a wounded healer herself whose own story embodies grace and grit, Karen’s work is recognized by thought-leaders as a much-needed medicine for families.

Her approach, embedded in HOME, has been what is often missing in the behavioral health and mental health communities, as she believes that individual therapy—while important—can keep families disconnected and individuals stuck in their narrow perspective. It is only by bringing family members together, safely and intentionally, to share their stories that hearts can be opened, nervous systems can be regulated, and relationships can be held with grace and empathy.

She specializes in working with families—collectively and individually—who have achieved tremendous success and privilege. She serves these families with deep discretion and guides them into intergenerational health by helping them to focus on relational generativity as opposed to accumulating more outward signs of validation and worth.

She integrates transpersonal psychology, mindfulness, systems and parts work, and spiritual practices to emphasize the importance of attunement, acceptance, safety, and compassion. While versed in a variety of modalities, Karen approaches psychic and relational woundedness from a holistic perspective. She calls her unique approach “heart-and-soul-centered-healing”. Her clients simply call it life-changing.

With Master degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, Karen invites her clients to explore, integrate, and heal the parts of themselves they have banished and rejected. She has a deep appreciation for “compunctio”—the holy pain which creates a bittersweetness and wisdom. Karen recognizes that healing, and life itself, is about a descent and a rising, a holding of the tension between sorrow and beauty, pain and joy.

Karen is no stranger to grief or human resilience and growth. Her therapeutic presence has been honed on the front lines of the HIV epidemic, sitting with families in the midst of their struggles, and working for over 20 years with global executives and their teams in the inner sanctum of boardrooms.

Karen’s adult son is her most powerful teacher, and she has recently returned home to NYC, where her roots run deep. In long-term recovery from intergenerational trauma and addiction, she believes in deep connections like the kind formed around the table when stories are told.. As someone who spent a winter of total solitude in Montana, she knows there is beauty found in simple, life-affirming rhythms and integrates the power of ritual into her work.

She is the author of The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others.

For Karen, HOME is a sacred calling.