Karen Ramsey, MSW, MBA LCSWA

Getting older brings changes nobody prepares you for: retirement, a new diagnosis, losing a spouse or close friends, leaving a longtime home, or needing more help than you're used to asking for. If you're caring for a parent or partner, you may be carrying worry, guilt, and exhaustion while keeping everyone else steady. Karen helps older adults and caregivers with anxiety, chronic illness, grief, and life transitions.

Her sessions are warm and practical. She uses CBT, ACT, mindfulness, and solution-focused tools to help clients understand their feelings, ease anxious thoughts, and find ways of coping that fit their lives. She welcomes veterans and their families.

Karen came to this work as a second career after many years in corporate business, so she knows what it's like to start over later in life. She also facilitates a support forum for women whose partners are living with prostate cancer, which has shown her how often caregivers carry this weight in silence.

Associate Clinical Psychotherapist

-Location: Gastonia office, plus telehealth across North Carolina

-Specialties: Anxiety, Chronic Illness, Life Transitions
Also works with: Caregiver stress, grief, depression, aging, and retirement

-Client focus: Adults, older adults, and veterans