Karma Lynn Carpenter, LCSW

Karma Lynn Carpenter brings 34 years of clinical experience to her work, offering a steady, experienced presence for people navigating trauma, intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, career transitions, and related life issues. She holds an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and has provided services in Arizona, Minnesota, Oregon, Illinois, and Hawaii. Karma schedules sessions seven days a week to accommodate varied needs and busy schedules.

Karma works with a broad range of concerns including trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting matters such as parenting gifted youth and young-adult autism, and career coaching for executives and professionals. Her practice also addresses end-of-life care, hospice and bereavement concerns, sensory health and novelty addiction, sex therapy and conflict over pornography, and applied behavior analysis topics. Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, eating and food-related issues, family conflict, first responder stress, forgiveness, gender dysphoria, guilt and shame, hoarding, and life purpose and midlife crisis work.

Clinically she draws on Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Somatic Therapy to help clients discover practical steps forward and to access internal resources for change. Therapy is provided in English, and Karma is accepting new clients, including international clients. She blends practical strategies with attention to embodied experience and life context to tailor support to each person’s needs.

Sessions can be scheduled in ways that fit the client’s life, and Karma emphasizes collaborative planning to identify goals and interventions that feel meaningful and achievable. Her approach is suited to people seeking focused, experienced guidance across a wide span of developmental and relational challenges.