Psychologist in Scarborough, Maine Karen Klein, Psychologist

Karen Klein helps teens, adults, and older adults across Maine navigate life’s challenges with compassion, insight, and decades of clinical expertise. At LifeStance Health, she provides individual therapy for a wide range of mental health concerns, helping clients gain a deeper understanding of themselves while developing practical strategies for growth and healing. Her approach is grounded in the belief that every person has the capacity for change, resilience, and a more fulfilling life. Karen has a longstanding passion for working with relationship, couples, and family dynamics. Throughout her career, she has specialized in helping individuals understand how interpersonal patterns, family systems, and life experiences shape emotional well-being. Whether clients are struggling with relationship stress, family conflict, or challenges in communication and connection, she helps them build healthier, more satisfying relationships and stronger support systems. Her clinical expertise includes the treatment of anxiety, depression, and PTSD/trauma, while also supporting clients facing a broad range of mental health and life concerns. Karen utilizes evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Couples/Marital Counseling, along with additional therapeutic interventions tailored to each individual’s needs. She also provides Psychological Testing and Gender-Affirmative Medical Readiness Evaluations. Her experience includes working with members of the LGBTQ+ community, military veterans, and individuals with developmental disabilities, among other populations. With nearly four decades of experience in mental health care, Karen brings a thoughtful and collaborative approach to treatment. She works with teens, adults, and seniors navigating concerns such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, grief, life transitions, insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, health-related challenges, and many other issues affecting emotional wellness. Fluent in Spanish, she is able to provide care to a broader range of individuals seeking support. Karen earned her education through Boston University, Worcester State College, and The University of Georgia. Over the course of her career, she has provided care in schools, community mental health settings, private practice, and long-term care environments, while also teaching and training future clinicians in couples and family therapy. Outside of her professional life, Karen enjoys showing and occasionally breeding her borzois, as well as pursuing fiber arts such as weaving, knitting, and sewing. She also loves spending time outdoors through sea kayaking, skiing, and hiking. Individuals throughout Maine seeking therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship concerns, ADHD, or other mental health challenges can find experienced, evidence-based support with Karen Klein at LifeStance Health.