Karen Nelson, LCSW-R has comprehensive experience working as a psychotherapist in both private practice and outpatient mental health clinics. Karen has worked with adolescents, adults, senior citizens, and with support groups with a wide variety of difficulties. She specializes in working with adults who are in unhealthy relationships, who have recognized unhealthy relationship patterns, and/or who are dealing with anxiety and depression, trauma, LGBTQ issues, sexuality and identity, grief and loss, low self-esteem, addictions, destructive behaviors, and obsessive and compulsive behavior or thinking.

Karen has been described as warm, humorous, thoughtful, sensitive, and easy to talk to. Karen draws upon eclectic modalities: psychoanalytic, EMDR, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, insight oriented, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, mindfulness practices, and systems perspectives. She is committed to identify, encourage, and value your strengths and support you in improving your relationships to live a fuller, more satisfying life.

Karen is a Smith College School for Social Work alumnus, is trained in EMDR from the Parnell Institute, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy through Fluency in partnership with Journey Clinical, has earned a post-graduate certificates in trauma studies from the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis from the Training Institute for Mental Health where she also served as the Director of Training from 2018-2021. She provides supervision for clinicians and is a co-founder of The Nelson Lacy Group: www.nlgpw.com.