Karen A. Geren
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
25 yrs experience
Updated August 19, 2026 How we verify
About
Karen Geren is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri with over 20 years of experience treating tweens/preteens, adolescents, and adults with serious and persistent mental illness. Her career includes work at Wabash Valley Psychiatric Hospital, Lafayette Clubhouse, McCallum Place (eating disorder treatment), and Counseling Works. She uses a non-judgmental, empowering approach that focuses on client strengths, tailoring interventions from short-term problem-solving to long-term therapeutic work with individuals, couples, and families.
Services
- Eating disorders
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma and PTSD
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Codependency
- Dissociative disorders
- Divorce
- Family conflict
- Grief
- Impulse control disorders
- LGBTQ+ issues
- Life transitions
- Mood disorders
- OCD
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-esteem
- Self-harm
- Stress
- Substance use
- Suicidal ideation
- Attachment-based
- Cognitive behavioral (CBT)
- Dialectical behavior (DBT)
- EMDR
- Emotionally focused
- Family systems
- Humanistic
- Psychodynamic
- Schema therapy
- Trauma-focused
State licenses
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Missouri · License #2006021384 · LCSW Active
expires 2028-09-30
Sources
The facts on this page are drawn from 11 public sources and independently fact-checked before publication.
Psychology Today directory
- Identity anchor: full name, credentials (LCSW), practice name, address, phone, specialties, issues, modalities, populations, fees, insurance, session formats, license number lead, 25 years in practice (psychologytoday.com)
practice website (kgcounseling.com biography page)
- Bio, education (BA Purdue, MSW Washington University), employment history, 20+ years experience, headshot candidate (kgcounseling.com)
practice website (kgcounseling.com homepage)
- Practice tagline, contact info, current headshot photo (kgcounseling.com)
practice website (kgcounseling.com contact page)
- Phone, email, address, booking method (kgcounseling.com)
NPPES NPI registry
- NPI 1457534836, taxonomy 1041C0700X Social Worker Clinical, license 2006021384 MO, enumeration date 2007-12-09, practice address matches (npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov)
GoodTherapy directory
- Listing exists for Karen Geren, LCSW, Saint Louis MO 63105 (goodtherapy.org)
EMDRIA directory
- Listed in EMDR International Association therapist directory; credentials and practice location (Clayton, MO / 8000 Bonhomme) match (emdria.org)
- Professional profile exists: Karen Geren, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist at Karen Geren Counseling (linkedin.com)
Yelp business listing
- Business listing exists for Karen Geren Counseling at 8000 Bonhomme Ave, St. Louis (yelp.com)
psychotherapysaintlouis.org directory
- Listing exists with education and employment history matching other sources (psychotherapysaintlouis.org)
7 Cups directory
- Listing exists for Karen Geren, Clinical Social Worker, Saint Louis MO (7cups.com)