- Empowerment counseling
- Practical coping tools
- Mindful goal focus
About Karen
Karen Gano is a clinical social worker who helps people navigate major life shifts and emotional pain. She focuses on creating a space where clients can find their voice, build coping skills, and move from surviving to thriving. Karen uses straightforward, compassionate support to help people facing loss, change, or burnout.
She brings 33 years of experience to counseling, with a Master of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh. Her background includes long work in medical settings such as oncology, palliative care, emergency medicine, and trauma. That history informs a practical, down-to-earth approach to distress and grief.
Karen describes her practice as empowerment counseling. She blends client-centered listening with motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to set achievable goals. Sessions typically concentrate on concrete tools - brief exercises, coping strategies, and step-by-step plans clients can use between visits.
Many people come for help with depression, anxiety, relationship strain, or major life transitions like divorce, caregiving, or career change. She also supports those dealing with trauma, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue from demanding jobs in healthcare.
Her work leans toward building strengths and practical change. Karen helps clients increase self-esteem, manage stress and anger, and make decisions that fit their values. The aim is to expand a client’s available options and create reliable ways to handle hard moments.
She brings 33 years of experience to counseling, with a Master of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh. Her background includes long work in medical settings such as oncology, palliative care, emergency medicine, and trauma. That history informs a practical, down-to-earth approach to distress and grief.
Karen describes her practice as empowerment counseling. She blends client-centered listening with motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to set achievable goals. Sessions typically concentrate on concrete tools - brief exercises, coping strategies, and step-by-step plans clients can use between visits.
Many people come for help with depression, anxiety, relationship strain, or major life transitions like divorce, caregiving, or career change. She also supports those dealing with trauma, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue from demanding jobs in healthcare.
Her work leans toward building strengths and practical change. Karen helps clients increase self-esteem, manage stress and anger, and make decisions that fit their values. The aim is to expand a client’s available options and create reliable ways to handle hard moments.
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