TraumA INFORMED & CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE COACHING AND CONSULTING SERVICES
Meridian K Consulting & Coaching Services
For Activists, Coaches, Therapists, Healers, Visionaries, and Non-profits
Who Want to be Trauma-Informed and Culturally-Responsive in their work.
Karen Simms (Meridian K) offers dedicated therapy, coaching, and public speaking services for adults, couples, and helping professionals. Her trauma-informed approach is backed by over 20 years of experience and certifications in EMDR, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, Trauma-Focused CBT, and Perinatal Mental Health (PESI-certified), including specialized training in supporting fathers, grief, loss, and complex emotional needs.
Karen emphasizes solution-focused, psychoanalytic, strength-based, and culturally responsive interventions. She currently welcomes clients through Grow and Headway.
In addition to her therapeutic work, she also offers engaging public speaking sessions that inspire and connect with audiences.
All services are grounded in evidence-based practices, cultural sensitivity, and trauma awareness, ensuring a supportive and professional experience.
Learn More About Me
Recognized, Experienced, & Expert Professional
I am an experienced and licensed mental health therapist who has been working in the human services field for most of my life. I have spent my career helping individuals, organizations, and community groups reach their highest potentials by using trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices.
I am committed to ongoing learning and training, and I am constantly staying abreast of advances in my professional community in order to identify which practices work best for my clients. I strive for excellence and positive outcomes. Those who work with me often say that I am resourceful and knowledgeable, with “a wealth of information” at my disposal.
I am also practical and pragmatic, and I believe that positive efforts achieve positive outcomes!
Lastly, I believe that all healing and transformations come through relationships. I strive to meet the unique needs of everyone I have the privilege of working with!
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Training & Consulting Services
Trauma informed & evidence based training and consulting services
Meridian K Consulting & Counseling offers a full range of training and consultation services to help organizations, communities, and groups understand trauma & trauma-informed care and more effectively meet the needs of youth, families & communities. All services are customized to meet your unique needs. Trainings is typically interactive, experiential, and will leave participants with useful skills.
Online PROGRAMS, GROUPS & CLASSES
Helping leaders, advocates and healers maintain their passions and purposes (and themselves!)
Healing happens in relationship—with yourself, with others, and with the world around you.
The All About Love series invites you to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most. Through trauma-informed guidance and practical tools, it's a space to navigate grief, transition, burnout, and beyond—together.
Come explore what it means to practice love, not just feel it.
the highest point of power, prosperity, splendor, etc.; zenith; apex
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