Karen Nelsen, a Marriage & Family Therapist, offers services in Santa Cruz, CA. She provides support to individuals across various life stages, including teenagers (13 to 18), adults (18 to 65), and elders (65 and over). Karen Nelsen specializes in a range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, family stress, general well-being and mental health concerns, grief, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), relationship stress, and spirituality. She offers services to individuals and couples in English (US). Her therapeutic approach is comprehensive, incorporating modalities such as Trauma Focused Therapy, Strength-Based Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Family / Marital Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Interpersonal Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Attachment-based Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Relational Therapy, Eclectic Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Coaching, Narrative Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Positive Psychology, Existential Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy, and Transpersonal Therapy.