Learn to love, understand, and create joy for yourself through therapy

What if you discovered that there is nothing wrong with you?

Trauma-informed, holistic psychotherapy to help you organize your thoughts, feelings, and emotions in an embodied way.
Located in Santa Cruz, California.

Meet Karen Ouse, M.A.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, blending intuition and learned skills to provide a relational, heart-centered way of working with individuals, couples, and families.

I help people explore the art of relationship with themselves and others.

You desire connection, clarity, and purpose.
Get the support you’ve been looking for:

The following are areas of interest and experience, but to which my services are not limited:

  • Adolescents and issues of identity, separation, and individuation

  • Alternative lifestyles and diversity issues

  • Anxiety and Depression

  • Couples

  • Grief

  • Issues of sexuality and sexual diversity

  • Parent/child dynamics

  • Trauma and attachment

  • Women’s issues