Karen Porter, LCPC, LMHC

Karen Porter is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 35 years of experience. She practices in Maryland and helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Her work also covers life transitions and issues that come up across adulthood.

She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Sessions look at what causes spikes in anger or anxiety and how to respond differently. She also helps clients rebuild confidence, manage impulsive reactions, and handle grief or separation after divorce.

Her approach emphasizes teamwork between therapist and client. Conversations are direct and goal-oriented. People leave sessions with concrete tools to try between meetings, such as breathing or behavioral adjustments and ways to reframe negative thinking.

Karen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape sessions. She pays attention to patterns that keep problems going, and then works on changing them with short-term strategies and longer-term skills. That can include practicing new responses to triggers and learning how to repair relationships affected by anger.

For many people she helps, the work becomes learning to notice early warning signs and choosing actions that lead to better outcomes. She asks clients to be active in the process and brings practical suggestions based on decades of clinical work.

Evidence-based approaches and online sessions