Karen Kassem earned her B.S. in Psychology at the University of Central Florida and her M.S./Ed.S. in Counselor Education from the University of Florida. She has clinical experience in a variety of setting such as outpatient clinics, county jails, and inpatient hospitals. She has worked with a multitude of clients ranging from ages 13 and up using a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approach. 

 

She joined the practice at the end of 2019 and was intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in 2020. Since then, she has conducted group and individual therapy within our adult and adolescent programs. She also leads the Advanced Skills DBT Group for those that have completed the program and works with individual CBT clients.