Karen Romine loves helping people reshape their lives to be less stressful, less painful, and less lonely, which makes more room for the good stuff.

Karen has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Her Bachelor's Degree was in creative writing. She has a weekly online column, The Baggage Handler.

She is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in both Washington and California, and her primary influences are postmodern/Narrative Therapy and Spiritual Psychology.

Karen specializes in addressing boundary issues that result from growing up in dysfunctional families, which helps relieve depression and anxiety as well as bugaboo patterns like self-sabotage, perfectionism and the fear of intimacy.

Some other areas of focus are:

• Relationship Challenges
• Anxiety and Depression
• Challenges of being a performer at various stages of celebrity
• Adjustment to Major Life Changes, such as career change, divorce, moving
• Divorced/Mixed Family Issues
• Couples Counseling for change or improvement
• "Growing Pains" associated with positive shifts in consciousness

Some ways we create freedom and empowerment are:

• Exposing unwanted programming and neutralizing it
• Questioning authority in productive ways
• Breaking the spells that obscure your vision
• Resolving dilemmas
• Identifying and living your true values
• Re-storying your "failures"
• Preparing for success

Karen is in private practice in Bellevue, Washington.