In Person Therapists in Woodstock, VT

I help children, teenagers, and adults to navigate the challenges of life through cultivating greater inner awareness, presence, and compassion. My clinical experience is in working with clients who are facing challenges such as anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions and interpersonal issues. My therapeutic approach treats you, the client, as the expert on your own inner experiences, and empowers you to create solutions for areas of your life that are not working.

I work closely and collaboratively with individuals and couples to move them beyond old, repetitive and unhappy patterns that hinder growth and freedom. Change happens in a deeply personal way, and never without trepidation. Effective therapy is a mutual undertaking in which fears, anxieties and deeply held beliefs are discovered and shifted. Depressive feelings, anxiety, unhappy work or personal relationships are often the result of unknown roadblocks we erect to protect us at a cost. Therapy provides a private and safe venue for discovering the reasons why life can feel flat, meaningless or frightening and can be the catalyst for profound movement and growth.

I've developed techniques based on my personality that help people change for the better as quickly, efficiently, and painlessly as possible. My ways of helping clients require me to understand how they think, compare it to the reality I see, and discuss the differences. After practicing as a clinical psychologist in rural Vermont for 36 years, I'm now a Solution-Focused Life Coach offering short term interventions to help solve minor or major feeling-related problems. I don't take notes. I don't bill insurance. To me confidentiality is a high priority.

Ms. Karen Chalom, LICSW, utilizes traditional talk psychotherapy combined with a holistic/systems approach to the healing process. She works with the mind, body, emotions and spirit to the degree that is comfortable for each child, adult, couple, family or group. Clients can receive therapy for many life issues including trauma, anxiety, relationships, stress. anger, depression, life transitions, parenting, grief and loss.

I see the human person as made up of body, mind, and spirit, and each dimension affects the other, especially during times of crisis, stress, transition, and disharmony. Currently I am seeing clients who have been working at therapy for a while and have made significant progress in feeling focused and grounded in their life, but also feel there is something still missing, and are able to name spirituality as the area that needs attention.

This is your life. Are you who you want to be? Do you ever get glimpses of the person you want to be but feel stuck in a moment, failure, struggle, experience, or belief you can’t get out of? I am passionate about helping people get unstuck and move towards the discovery of becoming who they want to be. I strive to help clients experience freedom, discover their strengths, and to be able to progress towards their maximum potential. You may have to step over muddy waters and journey through rugged terrain, but transformation is possible.

Are you struggling with: effective, respectful communication with your partner; trauma recovery; difficulty setting limits or establishing boundaries; repeating unhealthy patterns of thinking, behavior, or emotion; identifying your needs and getting your needs met; day-to-day state of anxiety, anger, fear, or sadness; a difficult life transition. Have you been in therapy before, but didn’t achieve the change you were hoping for? Somatic Relational Therapy might be for you. We can’t think or talk our way out of trauma. We live in a body, and we experience suffering and trauma in our bodies, and it is through our body that we heal.

Collaborative counseling and consulting can help. Together we create a professional and purposeful space for reflection and decision making. I can help you navigate lasting change, overcome barriers, accelerate development, achieve balance and meet-or exceed-your goals. Strengths-based collaborative counseling for individuals and families helps to clarify and resolve conflicts and advance personal and professional growth. We work together to develop sustainable solutions, healthy relationships and mutual understanding.

For the past 15 years I have worked with children, adolescents and adults with ASD, depression, anxiety and trauma. These individuals are often impacted by emotional dysregulation, which limits their potential and reduces their ability to participate and succeed in specific environments. My clients often internalize their perceived deficits and have identified themselves as being “less than” or “not good enough”. My work focuses on supporting abilities, recognizing strengths, honoring differences and valuing uniqueness while providing opportunities to observe their patterns of behavior that inhibit them from taking action.

There are a lot of people who look like ducks on a pond, gliding along smoothly and effortlessly. These people have respectable jobs and get feedback that they are doing them well. Their kids are kind, their houses tasteful, their bank accounts solid. But if you are one of those ducks you know that secretly you are paddling for your life, just trying to keep up. You are waiting for everyone else to see that you are a fraud, that you don’t belong, that you have no idea what you are doing. You get caught up in self-doubt and worry, feel unsure of your purpose or value, and are exhausted from overthinking everything.

You want the best for yourself (or your child). The story you tell of your experiences deserves to be heard. We all deserve to have space to be deeply understood at any age. It's my desire to provide understanding; listening that is so healing. I work with children, teens, adults to build lasting skills and resources for them. I value working with individuals that are learning to navigate their identities in an overstimulating world. Clients and I work together to process, and build skills in order to meet their treatment goals and create enduring healing. I have a deep love for Vermont and my aim is to support our community.

After 20 years of practice, I have observed that meaningful change is possible for people, no matter how stuck or unhappy one may feel . I look forward to helping you identify and successfully modify issues in your life circumstances or relationships that feel stale, repetitive, or dysfunctional. Through self-exploration, re-examination of your goals, and improved communication of your needs, I will help you move toward living intentionally and fully.

I work with couples and individuals to identify patterns of behavior that negatively impact their ability to function as the best versions of themselves. I use an existential focus to help clients navigate life changes, beginning with entering adolescence and progressing to moving away from home, marriage and relationship, birth of a child and loss or death of a loved one. I engage with my clients compassionately and collaboratively.

I am genuinely interested in you and the situation leads you to seek counseling services today. Whether that be • A child struggling to cope at home or in school • Teenager struggling with depression or anxiety • Marriage issues • The need to rediscover meaning and purpose • A grandparent finding yourself, once again, the primary caretaker for little ones. We all need a support system and I value your family as you define it.