Karen Wassom Hammond, LPCC

Kentucky · 12 years in practice

Karen Wassom Hammond is a Kentucky-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 12 years of experience.

License and registration

LPCC, Kentucky: 166051 · expires December 2026
NPI: 1336503135 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 12
Languages: English

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About Karen

Karen Wassom Hammond is a Kentucky-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 12 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, low self-esteem, mood concerns, trauma, parenting strains, and attention-related challenges. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can share what’s on their mind and begin to make small, steady changes.

Her work blends Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) with client-centered care and cognitive-behavioral techniques.

Background and approach

She listens for what matters most to each person and then helps them try new ways of interacting, thinking, and coping. Sessions often include focused conversations about emotions, practice of specific skills, and steps to change unhelpful patterns. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to support skill-building around emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

When clients want it, she can include discussions shaped by their faith perspectives as part of the work. The emphasis is on practical tools people can use between sessions to see steady progress. Karen offers a straightforward approach to parenting concerns, blended family issues, and relationship repair.

She addresses problems like infidelity, communication breakdowns, jealousy, codependency, and money stress with clear plans and small experiments to test new behaviors. Her counseling style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel more capable in daily life. People who choose her for therapy usually want a collaborative process that mixes listening with action.

She guides each person to set goals, try new strategies, and track what helps over time.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Karen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Relationship issues
Intimacy-related issues
Sleeping disorders
Self esteem
Depression
Trauma and abuse
Parenting issues
Anger management
Bipolar disorder
Coaching
ADHD
Blended family issues
Codependency
Communication problems
Dependent personality
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Infidelity
Jealousy
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Narcissism
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Paranoia
Personality disorders
Postpartum depression
Pregnancy and childbirth
Self-harm
Self-love
Social anxiety and phobia
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Karen names

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Online support

Emotion and Skill Work Online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name the feelings that shape their reactions, then try new ways of responding in relationships and daily life. EFT is useful for intimacy problems, attachment worries, and situations where emotions keep repeating old patterns.

Client-centered therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows the client’s pace so people feel understood and can explore what matters most to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Karen collaborates with each person to decide whether EFT, client-centered work, or cognitive-behavioral techniques will best support their goals. Together they set priorities, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and emotional work. Phone can fit into a busy day and requires less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or keep contact brief. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, and other routines while still working on meaningful changes.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns can be addressed?

She works with relationship and intimacy issues, sleep problems, low self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, anger, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related areas such as infidelity, codependency, and money stress.

How would you describe her therapy style?

The approach blends listening and practical work: emotion-focused conversations, client-centered support, and cognitive-behavioral tools to change thinking and behavior.

What is her professional background?

She has 12 years of professional experience as a clinician and holds the LPCC credential listed for Kentucky practice.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She is licensed as an LPCC in Kentucky and conducts sessions with people in that regional context.

In which languages are sessions offered?

Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not accepted.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How are costs and billing handled?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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