Profile / United States
Karen Roach, LCSW
Illinois
LCSW - Stress and Parenting Support
See online therapy options- CBT and DBT methods
- School social work experience
- Skills for daily life
About Karen
Karen Roach is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois with 20 years of clinical experience. She works with stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, self-esteem, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, anger, coping with life changes, and ADHD. Karen often supports women, mothers, and educators who want clearer ways to respond to challenging child behaviors that disrupt home or school.
Her style is direct and collaborative. She focuses on how the body and mind react to stress and shows practical tools to change those reactions. Sessions include skill-building aimed at reducing reactivity and improving everyday functioning.
Karen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and dialectical behavior approaches. She mixes short, goal-focused work and longer skill development depending on the situation. Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused methods also appear when clients want to set clear, achievable goals.
Her background includes years as a school social worker and teaching graduate students in a Master of Social Work program. That work informs a pragmatic approach to parenting challenges and school-related behavior concerns. She leans on experience with adoption, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
Sessions can include phone, video, and messaging options at times that fit her school-year schedule. Prospective clients should confirm current session formats and scheduling details before booking. The subscription billing used for sessions can be canceled at any time.
How her approaches are used in online sessions
Karen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test different responses. CBT helps with anxiety, mood issues, stress reactions, and day-to-day problem solving by breaking problems into concrete parts and trying new behaviors.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen and reflect what matters to the client, helping people clarify goals and feel understood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication when emotions feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try first. That collaboration helps shape short-term goals and longer skill practice.
Practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into a busy schedule and shorter check-ins when needed. The therapist's biography lists phone, video, and messaging as available options, but prospective clients should confirm current formats and exact session times before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to try new skills in everyday life and to check in between in-person commitments.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she usually help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, parenting, self-esteem, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, anger, coping with life changes, and ADHD among other areas.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and practical, focusing on skill-building and understanding the stress response system to change reactions and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience including school social work and teaching in a Master of Social Work program.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LCSW licensed in Illinois and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she use?
Her biography mentions phone, video, and messaging as options; confirm current session formats before booking.
How does billing and scheduling work?
Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to start, complete the matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
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