Karen Blandino, MEd, LPC comes to Fort Wellness Counseling with extensive experience in providing great therapy as a therapist. She has over a decade of experience in helping individuals, couples, and families as a counselor and therapist.  She has a passion to help clients provide a honest and inquisitive look into how their story shapes their perspectives of their world and where they belong in it. Karen works with teenagers, and adults.  She specializes in anxiety, depression, grief, post-traumatic stress disorder, religious/spiritual trauma, narcissistic abuse and trauma.

In addition to her master’s degree in the counseling field from the Texas Christian University, she is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Preprocessing (EMDR) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART).  She’s is Gottman Trained and has certifications in Grief Training and Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS).  Her therapeutic modalities include Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution Focus and Trauma therapy.  

Karen has a great deal of experience providing help to people living in shame, anxiety and loneliness. Her mission is to help people who are hurting to feel seen and heard.

With many years of experience in the church world. Ministry and spiritual trauma is another niche where Karen has been allowed to engage other’s peoples stories. There is a  unique pain associated with ministry abuse. Therapy can be a great resource to help a person heal. 

You can get scheduled with Karen using the online scheduling system below, email her at karen@fortwellness.com or by using the contact form below. She is currently seeing clients both in-person and also offers virtual appointments as well.

She strives to provide a safe, supportive, and empathic environment for clients to explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a judgment free space.