Karen Senecal-Davis, NcPsyA (she/her) Supervising Psychotherapist
Karen creates a comfortable, thoughtful, and supportive therapeutic environment where clients can engage in meaningful personal growth. She offers a highly personalized approach, tailoring her work to each individual’s unique needs, goals, and life context.
Karen is a queer-identified, sex-positive, and affirmative therapist with particular expertise working with trans, gender-nonconforming, and LGBQ individuals. She also provides a supportive and nonjudgmental space for parents of LGBTQIA+ children and adolescents, recognizing the wide range of emotions that can arise in this role. Karen is deeply committed to practicing as an anti-racist clinician and welcomes clients from all backgrounds and identities.
Her clinical specialties include depression and anxiety; sexual and gender identity exploration; support for parents raising LGBTQIA+ youth; work with individuals engaged in social justice movements; and issues related to grief and loss.
Karen believes that the quality of the therapeutic relationship is the strongest predictor of meaningful change. Her approach is empathic, collaborative, and responsive, with careful attention to each client’s particular challenges and strengths.
Karen completed a five-year training in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and has been in private practice since 2013. She previously served as Director of Training at the Training Institute for Mental Health, where she designed curriculum and worked closely with candidates and faculty. She is also certified in Psychoanalytic Supervision.
EDUCATION
National Institute for the Psychotherapies
Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Union Theological Seminary
Masters of Divinity
Hartwick College
Bachelor of Arts in English, Minor in Sociology
AREAS OF FOCUS
Anxiety
Coping skills
Couples Therapy
Depression
First Responders
Grief
Identity
LGBTQIA+
Older Adults
Parenting
PTSD
Social Justice
Trauma
RATES & AVAILABILITY
- Cigna in-network
- Rates for out-of-network/full fee $250/session
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