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Doctor Flamingo has left the office!

First day of retirement December 1st...
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...and my surprise on my lawn thanks to my daughter

Get ready for the holidays....

Happy Thanksgiving
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...but be sure to save time for yourself!

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A GUIDE TO YOUR PINK PASSIONATE YEARS!
 
especially created for
WOMEN OF THAT CERTAIN AGE
 
Navigate your pink passionate years with...
 panache
prosperity
and
      positive mental health    
 
 

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Karen Stephen, Ph.D. devoted her professional life to taking the psychobabble out of psychotherapy.  Choosing straight talk over straight jackets, she brought hope and healing to thousands of clients through her forty year career.  She retired from her practice on December 1, 2009.  Now she can devote time to family, to her online endeavors including this website and serving as the Mental Health Advisor for the National Association of Baby Boomer Women.  

She believed that an engaging, direct approach, which goes beyond the traditional “uh-huh” and added a touch of humor, was essential in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders. 

 

Her focus over the last twenty years has been on the care of women facing the challenges of midlife—which she teasingly defined as anything between forty and death. 

She has witnessed the physical, mental and emotional breakdowns that can occur when multiple caretaking responsibilities collide with diminishing personal and emotional resources at this age.  

Her support groups for midlife women were lovingly called the groups for the formerly strong!   

 

Karen knows that self care, having fun, setting limits, finding a passion, and minding one’s own business can be difficult for women who have been selfless caregivers their entire lives.  But she convinces women that these skills are learnable!  

With support and the proper tools, every woman can learn to accommodate drastic health changes, deal with addicted children, rear grandchildren, confront life-threatening illness, embrace living alone, set limits with style and grace, and overcome life-long emotional struggles. 

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 FLASH!

Psychologist greets retirement not with a golden handshake but with hot pink passion! 

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Karen Stephen is licensed in California (PSY4597) as a Psychologist.  She was formerly employed in the San Francisco Bay area by the nation’s largest HMO and was in private practice for many years before that.   

Her passions are fiction writing, acting, playing the harpsichord, caring for her grandchildren, and, of course, collecting antique flamingos.   

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Degrees of Obession by Karen Stephen
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