About Karen Ingram
As a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey, I bring warmth, honesty, and a practical, solution-focused perspective to my work. I’m originally from England, and my life experiences, along with working, and adapting to my own different life stages have shaped the way I see people and relationships.
I work with individuals and couples through Telehealth throughout New Jersey. My goal is to help people understand themselves and their relationships more clearly, find comfort in who they are, and feel more confident and purposeful navigating whatever stage of life they are in.
My path to becoming a therapist grew out of a genuine curiosity about people and what happens to us as our lives change. I am fascinated by life stages: the ways we grow, adjust, take on new roles, and sometimes find ourselves questioning who we now are and how we fit in. I’m particularly interested in how these experiences can affect our relationships and how conflict can emerge, even between people who deeply care about one another.
My clinical experience includes working in an outpatient facility with teenagers who had clinical diagnoses, as well as over two decades in high school education. These experiences have given me a deep understanding of adolescents, but they also drew my attention to something broader: the family system and how individuals function in, and beyond, it. Why do we sometimes find ourselves repeating the same patterns? Why can a transition that seems positive still feel difficult? And how do we adjust when the person we have been, or the role we have played, no longer feels quite right?
These questions are the foundation of my work. I believe therapy should be a place where you can be yourself and feel understood, but also a place where you can be challenged to look at things differently and move beyond patterns that are no longer serving you.
Outside of my work, I love to read, watch films, garden, exercise, and travel. I value the experiences that come from seeing different places, meeting diverse people, and continuing to learn. I think these same qualities (curiosity, openness, and a willingness to see things from another perspective) are at the heart of good therapy.