Our Counselor

Karen Spruill received her Master of Arts degree in Community Counseling from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. She previously held a Limited License in Psychology in Michigan where she practiced with children and adults for about five years. Karen is currently a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern and a member of the American Counseling Association.

 

Karen has almost 14 years of experience in providing support and therapy groups. She has served as co-leader for WINGS, a support group for women survivors of abuse and intimate partner violence, for five years. Previously she worked as a legal advocate for a domestic violence shelter and served on the Lake Union Conference Abuse Taskforce.

 

Karen has combined her background in communications and her knowledge of mental health in her writing/editing career for magazines and on-line articles, as well as two books, The Making of a Mother and A Survivor’s Guide to Breast Cancer.

 

 

Karen worked as the Small Groups Coordinator at Florida Hospital Church from 2000-2003. She has served as an SDA elder in several churches, and she currently teaches in the Women of the Word adult Sabbath School class .  She has been married for 34 years to her husband, Timothy, and they have two adult married children.