Karem Diaz can be reached at (425) 515- 9032 or by email at karemdiazcounseling@outlook.com.

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Insurance: NA

Location: Issaquah

Karem Diaz, MA, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor who works with adults. She received her bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in 1999, where she later was an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the School of Psychology, while running a private practice for eighteen years. She received her master’s degree in Applied Child and Adolescent Psychology from the University of Washington in 2019 and clinical training at Nexus Youth and Families where she provided individual and family therapy to children and youth with trauma backgrounds and offered preventive mental health care to new mothers and their infant children.

Karem has more than two decades of clinical experience working with a diverse, multicultural English and native Spanish-speaking adult population. Her approach to counseling emphasizes evidence-based treatments like Cognitive Behavioral therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindful Awareness of Body Therapy and draws elements of attachment-base therapy and family systems therapy, in a compassionate and collaborative manner. Besides English, she also provides psychotherapy in Spanish.

 Areas of interest and expertise include the following:

• Mood Disorders

• Anxiety-related disorders

• Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress

• Family and life transitions

• Relational concerns and attachment issues

• Emotional Dysregulation

• Multicultural concerns

• Parent coaching in managing challenging behaviors