Karen Jurls, LICSW

Karen Jurls is an LICSW who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She offers calm, practical support for problems like depression, low self-esteem, addictions, sleep or eating concerns, and parenting challenges. Her background includes long experience in mental health and public health, and work with adoptive parents and their children.

Clients can expect straightforward, goal-focused conversations. Karen helps people notice what matters, set realistic steps, and practice skills between sessions. She uses clear, everyday language and keeps sessions focused on what a person needs right now.

With 35 years in the field, Karen draws on several evidence-informed approaches to tailor care. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and behavioral strategies, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, and DBT tools when needed. That mix allows practical coping skills alongside deeper work on patterns and relationships.

Her practice has supported people dealing with family of origin issues, abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, and aging and geriatric issues among other concerns. She emphasizes collaboration - clients and therapist set goals together and track progress over time.

Karen works from Alabama and conducts sessions in English. To begin, clients complete a brief questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their routine. She aims to help people feel more able to manage daily life and move forward with clearer choices.

How therapy approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values and goals. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors through practical exercises and homework to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.

Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Decisions about which techniques to try are made together and can change as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the current options before booking. Many people find online sessions make it easier to fit care into a busy week, since they can avoid travel and use shorter check-ins when needed. Online work also lets therapists assign exercises and follow up on practice between meetings, which supports steady progress over time.