Karen Haggard, LCSW
Illinois · 25 years in practice
Karen Haggard is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship struggles.
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 helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with adults facing life transitions, addiction concerns, parenting stress, and issues around identity and intimacy. Sessions are practical and focused on real change rather than labels or jargon.
Her style is calm and person-centered. She listens first, then helps people set small, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Karen uses a mix of techniques to suit each person’s needs, including hypnotherapy, acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused ideas, and cognitive strategies. The goal is steady progress and clearer daily routines. Clients often bring problems with sleep, anger, attention, or chronic illness.
She also supports those dealing with trauma, abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiving strain. Conversations cover coping skills, communication, boundaries, and rebuilding self-esteem after hard experiences. Karen draws on a long clinical background in Illinois and has worked across many settings.
Her approach blends practical tools with attention to relationships and life story. She helps people notice patterns and try different ways of responding to stress. Therapy can include brief skill-building, deeper processing, or a combination tailored to what a person needs now.
International clients may be seen and sessions are offered in English using a mix of video, phone, chat, or text messaging formats.
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
- Hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- 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
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Karen blends hypnotherapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to help people make changes that matter. Hypnotherapy is used as a way to focus attention and support new patterns of thought or behavior, which can help with anxiety, sleep issues, and habit change. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches practical skills to accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match personal values, which often helps with stress, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current reactions and helps people develop more supported ways of relating to others and to themselves.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Karen will discuss options and try methods collaboratively, adjusting techniques based on a person’s goals, preferences, and what proves most helpful in sessions. This process is meant to be flexible and paced to the individual.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and interactive techniques, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care when travel or relocation occurs.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can be addressed in therapy?
Karen works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep problems, ADHD, and many related challenges.
What is Karen's therapy style like?
Her style is person-centered and practical. She focuses on listening, setting small goals, and using techniques that fit each person's needs.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working with adults across a wide range of emotional and life issues.
What credentials and location are on file?
She holds LCSW credentials and practices in Illinois with licensure noted for IL LCSW and TX LCSW.
Are sessions available in other languages or countries?
Sessions are offered in English and Karen accepts international clients.
What formats are used for sessions?
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
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