Karen Crawley-Buckholtz, MD, LCPC, LPC
Somatic-informed counselor with practical tools
About Karen
Karen Crawley-Buckholtz is a licensed clinician who focuses on somatic-informed care alongside practical talk therapy. She draws on two decades of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She works from Maryland and communicates in English.
Karen trained in psychology and counseling and holds medical and counseling credentials: MD, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). She has long experience supporting people coping with trauma and abuse, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She also addresses ADHD, bipolar concerns, body image and eating issues, and identity-related matters including LGBT topics. Her approach blends body-focused work with client-centered listening and structured tools. Sessions may include attention to bodily sensations and simple grounding exercises alongside cognitive and skills-based practices.
The intent is to help a person feel more present in their body while learning clearer ways to cope. Karen aims to meet people where they are and build on strengths they already have. She collaborates on goals and adjusts methods as needs change.
Her style emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical steps that a person can use between sessions. With about 20 years of professional experience, she has worked with hospice, illness and disability concerns, and populations affected by disaster and high-stress work. People seeking support around parenting, communication problems, commitment issues, or compassion fatigue may find her approach useful.
How somatic and skills-based work translates online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body. In online sessions this may mean guided awareness of breath, posture, or simple movement to help people notice and ease tense areas. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience without judgment, helping people feel heard and supported while they set their own goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include worksheets, behavioral experiments, and short exercises to practice between meetings. Together, these approaches can address anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, sleep and eating concerns, and challenges with coping in daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so the work stays relevant to their needs.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions provide an audio-only option, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing contact between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and practice skills where they are needed.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Virginia
- Languages
- English