Karen R Moist is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Anxiety, Family Conflict, and Stress. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
In my practice I work with families and children who have experienced trauma and are having attachment difficulties. Many children I see have pre-verbal trauma from parental stress during pregnancy, adoption, neglect, or abuse. Some of the children I see are experiencing traumatic stress due to gender fluidity or gender dysphoria. Because trauma is the result of feeling helpless in a situation, many of the families I see have never thought of their child’s behavior as a symptom of a life trauma. This shift in perspective is often the beginning of the healing process. My objective is to help a child and family move from surviving to thriving by helping the child heal from trauma and the family system heal and change to support each individual. While play therapy provides an opportunity for healing even when the child cannot put words to their discomfort, the play room is set up to be comfortable to the child that needs to play, as well as the teen that prefers to talk.