Karen has a private practice in San Francisco, where she provides psychotherapy, spiritual direction, supervision and mentoring. She is a core faculty member in the Spiritual Guidance Program at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, as well as a community faculty member at the University of California-San Francisco in the Department of OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences.
Recently Karen served as a consultant for the National Welcoming Synagogues Project, and was a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Coalition of Welcoming Congregations of the Bay Area. Karen trained as a Courage and Renewal® facilitator with the Center for Courage and Renewal, inspired by the leadership of Quaker educator Parker Palmer. Her writing has appeared in Women and Therapy, Zeek and Tikkun, and she writes regularly for Presence: the Journal of Spiritual Directors International.



