Karensa Lewis, LCSW, CSW

Karensa Lewis brings 30 years of clinical experience to her work with individuals and families in Colorado. She combines advanced social work training with a long history of practice in a range of settings - from inpatient and outpatient psychiatric clinics and residential facilities to hospice care and human services programs that support foster and adoptive parents and military families. Her background also includes a fellowship in individual counseling from Baylor College of Medicine, a master's degree in social work from the University of Houston, and a bachelor of social work from the State University of New York.

Throughout her career she has focused on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, depression and anxiety, parenting and fatherhood issues, intimacy and commitment challenges, and other life transitions. Her practice has included work with people facing end of life issues, those healing from abuse, and families navigating divorce, blended family dynamics, and adoption and foster care matters. She also addresses stress, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and caregiver and compassion fatigue concerns.

Her clinical approach is collaborative and interactive, inviting feedback about what is most helpful. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally focused and attachment-informed work, family of origin perspectives, and psychodynamic ideas to tailor treatment to each person. She holds LCSW and CSW credentials, professional social work qualifications that reflect advanced clinical training and state licensure to practice in Colorado.

Karensa is known to bring warmth, compassion, honesty, and a nonjudgmental stance to sessions, and she emphasizes treating every person with dignity and respect. She is open to exploring goals and options with people as they move toward greater well-being and more fulfilling relationships.