Dr. Karen Ruskin, Psychotherapist

Dr. Karen IS The Relationship Expert.

Past clients and current clients often refer to Dr. Karen as: The Marriage Saver and The Parenting Strategist.

Whether Dr. Karen is meeting with clients in her private practice office, educating those that attend her acclaimed marital and parenting workshops, or providing consultation to other therapists, she provides insight and cutting edge do-able solutions that people want and need for any and all relationship based, human behavior, and mental health/wellness issues.

Approach: Dr. Karen is direct. She tells you like it is with compassion, passion, professionalism, and humor. She is solution-focused and offers concrete do-able strategies for marital, personal, and family enhancement and problem resolution that can begin today with observable results as reported time and time again.

Dr. Karen provides practical advice, ‘real’ and ‘do-able’ strategies for ‘real’ people.

Private Practice: Dr. Karen is the founder, owner, and president of: Dr. Karen Ruskin & Associates, Inc., Sharon, Massachusetts. She only selects associates she is confident are in sync with her therapeutic philosophies and can truly help clients to help themselves get to a better place. Dr. Karen and her professional team of therapists each provide couple, individual, and family counseling. In addition, each therapist has a particular expertise and specialties utilizing their own therapeutic style offering our clients concrete help for all of their individual and/or family’s health care needs on their journey to live a life of mental wellness. This practice specializes in relationship issues including but not limited to: the marital relationship, the parent-child relationship, social relationships, family/extended family relationships, business relationships, the child-school relationship, and the relationship we have with our individual self with regards to our mental health and our personal and professional life journey.

The philosophy and mission of Dr. Karen Ruskin & Associates, Inc., is to provide quality care and ‘help our clients to help themselves get to a better place’.

Do you think you have what is takes to be a part of The Dr. Karen Team? Dr Karen only accepts an elite group of practitioners. If you are a licensed therapist in the state of Massachusetts and feel your philosophies and methodologies are a great fit for this professional, caring, upscale private mental health practice, Dr. Karen is interested in receiving your inquiry. You must include your cover letter and resume and submit via email: drkarenruskin@msn.com.

Credentials: Dr. Karen holds her Doctorate in Psychology, her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy, and her Bachelor’s in Psychology. Dr. Karen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, she is a Psychotherapist. Clinical Member: American Association For Marriage And Family Therapy.

Media: Dr. Karen is the go-to psychotherapist guest expert for FOX 25 News Boston covering a wide range of timely topics in the news. In addition,  ‘Ask Dr. Karen’ is a regular monthly segment where viewers submit their relationship questions and Dr. Karen answers them LIVE on air on FOX News Boston. She has appeared as a psychotherapist media guest expert sharing providing her cutting edge expertise as a human behavior expert on Fox News Channel’s; The O’Reilly Factor, FOX & Friends, FOX & Friends First, Hannity, America Live With Megyn Kelly, and America’s Newsroom. Dr. Karen has also appeared on FOX Business Network With Neil Cavuto,  ABC’s Good Morning America, Discovery Network’s Destination America, Sun News Network ‘The Source’ ,  The Steve Harvey TV Talk Show, Ivanhoe Broadcast News Smart Woman Series, Huff Post Live, The Bill Cunningham Show, and more . . .  Dr. Karen is the producer and host of: The Dr. Karen Show, Cable TV talk show, Sharon, MA where she provides relationship, marriage, parenting and overall life enhancing advice and also hosts interviews and panel discussions. In addition, she is often sought out for her mental health and wellness insights, relationship and parenting expertise on the radio;  96.9 Boston Talks, The Andrea Tantaros Show, FOX News Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio, WRKO-AM The Kuhner Report, The Palin Update, Wellness For The Real World with host Dr. Veronica Anderson, It’s Your Health Radio, CKNW, WWL, and more . . .

Print: Dr. Karen is the author of the parenting book: The 9 Key Techniques For Raising Respectful Children Who Make Responsible Choices and her newest release; the must read marriage book: Dr. Karen’s Marriage Manual. Dr. Karen is a columnist for Pediatrics for Parents, a pediatric journal. Her column is: “Dr. Karen Explains”. She is a valued source and often interviewed for and quoted in various magazines, newspapers, and online publications including; FOX Business, FOX News Magazine, Men’s Health, Woman’s Day, Yahoo.com, Shine.Yahoo.com, USA Today, Care.com, Good Housekeeping, TIME, abcnews.com, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, Parents Magazine, Baby Talk, and more . . . Dr. Karen is an adviser and contributor for TrintMe as well as a featured expert for Parenting Book Mark and the relationship expert for Advice For Life.

Speaker: Dr. Karen has spoken nationally providing marital and parenting seminars and workshops. She has spoken in a variety of contexts including for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, churches, synagogues, teachers and staff at the pre-school, elementary, middle, and high school level, as well as for college students. Dr. Karen has provided workshops for other health care professionals some of which include: Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Social Workers. Dr. Karen is a sought after speaker and personally evaluates all inquiries.

Blog: Dr. Karen created a blog where she posts informative and intriguing tips, articles, and opinions about timely news stories, hot topics, marriage, parenting, relationships, and additional subjects of wide interest. Readers comments are welcome. Visit Dr. Karen’s Blog

Google Profile: Dr. Karen Ruskin

Dr. Karen’s specialties include:

  • Marital/Partner (e.g., reconciliation, communication, infidelity, intimacy enhancement)
  • Divorce
  • Parenting
  • Family Relationship Dynamic (nuclear, extended, blended)
  • Personal/Professional Growth
  • Consultation for Health Care Professionals
  • Cutting Edge and Unique Analysis of Today’s Hot Topics

Dr. Karen’s sub-specialties include:

  • Women’s Issues
  • Men’s Issues
  • Healthy Coping
  • Anxiety
  • Grief/Loss
  • Life Transition/Adjustment Related Issues