Meet Teri Karjala

TERI KARJALA, LPC, LMFT, EFTCERT1, RPT, CACII

Founder & Executive Director

Teri Karjala is the Owner and Executive Director of Creative Counseling Center as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), credentialed trauma therapist, Amazon Top Selling Author, podcaster, teacher, trainer, national keynote speaker, she’s been featured on Denver’s WB2 News-Everyday, CNTV and local Denver-area radio shows and national podcasts.

Teri began working in the counseling industry industry in 1999, providing individual and group therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. Today, Teri’s clients are primarily ambitious women entrepreneurs and thought-leaders who find Teri because they are living generally unfulfilled lives, feeling weighed down by limiting beliefs, self-sabotage, fear, anxiety and depression, possibly due to past trauma. Teri, through her truly integrative approach, empowers her clients to create massive change and expand far beyond their wildest personal and professional dreams.

Teri meets her clients where they are and works at a pace they dictate. Her focus is on being supportive, warm, and collaborative, using various counseling theories and techniques to treat the “whole” person. Depending on a client’s goals, Teri draws from therapeutic modalities such as energy psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), experiential, humanistic, mindfulness, and systemic approaches.

Teri believes a solid relationship is crucial to the therapeutic process and encourages her team of therapists at Creative Counseling Center to build a foundation of trust with clients, enabling progress, growth and transformation.

Teri, wholly devotes herself to being a resource for her clients as well as her team of therapists at Creative Counseling Center, equipping as many individuals as possible with practical, unique tools to tackle their greatest challenges, uncover their greatest levels of fulfillment, and live a life of hope, harmony and happiness.