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Karen Hernandez

Therapist
5 years of experience
  • Virtual
  • Substance use / addiction, ADD/ADHD
  • Individual therapy, Couples therapy, Family therapy

Great to meet you!

Hello, I'm Karen. I want to help you recover, rejuvenate, and replenish. Together we can work to build your resilience so whatever you many be dealing with in life you won't get down and stay down you will learn the skills in sessions and be able to rejuvenate (the act of energizing, revitalizing) yourself and get back up. We need to replenish. I want you to be able to replenish (to restore, to fill up again)!

My approach to therapy

I will help you to work to explore and evolve into the person you want to be, the life you want for yourself. The tools I used to help you make these transformations are inspired by Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution focused Therapy, and Person Centered.

What you can expect from me

I will teach you the skills you need such as emotional regulation, visual imagery, deep breathing, and learn to replace old thinking patterns that keep you from moving forward to replace them with new healthy thinking patterns. We will explore how the neuroscience within your brain controls thoughts and behaviors. I will use psycho educational material to breakdown to help you understand how your brain chemistry really works.

About me

  • I identify as
    Other Racial or Ethnic Background, Woman
  • My style is
    Empowering, Warm, Solution Oriented

Qualification and insurance

  • Years of experience
    5 years of experience
  • Training
    MA (Master of Arts) at Lenior-Rhyne College, MC (Masters in Counseling) at Lenoir Rhyne University
  • License type
    LCAS - Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor (North Carolina)
  • Licensed in
  • Insurance accepted
    Aetna, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Carelon Behavioral Health, Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey

Cost

Care details

  • More specialties
    Anxiety, Bipolar disorder, Depression, Eating disorders, Family issues, Stress management, Anger management, Cultural & ethnic issues, Maternal mental health, Relationship issues, Women's issues, Trauma, PTSD
  • Therapy methods
    Psychodynamic, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Humanistic, Psychoanalytic, Strength-Based, Relational, Narrative Therapy, Positive Psychology, Gottman Method / Gottman Couples, Trauma Focused CBT, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Multi-Systemic (MST), Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Behavior Modification, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Exposure Response Prevention, Gestalt, Attachment Based, Cognitive Processing (CPT), Art Therapy
  • Care types
    Individual therapy, Couples therapy, Family therapy
  • Ages served
    Adults, Children, Adolescents, Seniors
  • Languages
    English, Spanish
  • Location
    1015 2nd Street Northeast #200
    Hickory, NC 28601