Karen Jurls , LICSW

Karen Jurls is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with a long history of supporting people through difficult life transitions and emotional challenges. She combines deep experience in both mental health and public health settings to offer thoughtful, steady guidance for individuals and families navigating depression, stress, low self-confidence, loss from relationship and family changes, trauma, and struggles with coping skills.

Her background includes close work with adoptive parents and their children, informing a sensitive approach to adoption and foster care concerns as well as attachment issues. Over a 35-year career she has helped people address a broad range of matters including relationship and family problems, addiction-related concerns, sleep and eating issues, parenting and caregiver stress, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder and depression.

Karen emphasizes respectful, collaborative care that centers each person’s needs and goals. Together with clients she focuses on identifying practical steps, building healthier habits, and developing insight into emotions and behavior so everyday life feels more manageable and purposeful. She welcomes the opportunity to work with individuals seeking compassionate support and practical strategies for change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and build actions that align with those values. It combines mindfulness and practical steps to reduce avoidance and increase engagement in meaningful activities, often supporting people coping with anxiety, depression, or life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationships and early bonds to understand current emotional responses and interpersonal patterns. It can be particularly helpful for those dealing with adoption and foster care issues, family of origin problems, or difficulties forming secure connections.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors by teaching skills to reframe thinking and practice new coping strategies. It is commonly used for stress, mood concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, and a wide range of everyday challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Karen Jurls works collaboratively with people to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Licensed professionals and therapists can adapt techniques over time so care evolves with progress.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and reach support from home or elsewhere. These options help maintain continuity of care and allow therapists to use the same evidence-based approaches in a way that suits each person’s life.