Karmen Tuivai, LCSW

Welcome to Magnolia Tree Counseling. I created Magnolia Tree to provide individuals with a safe space to find healing. I believe that you have everything within yourself to discover your best self. It takes courage to begin therapy, and I will guide you in increasing your self-worth and becoming the person you are meant to be - your authentic you!

 Hi, I’m Karmen—therapist, deep feeler, overthinker-in-recovery, and someone who genuinely gets it. 🤍

As someone with lived experience of OCD, anxiety, and perfectionism, I know what it’s like when your mind runs full-speed into worst-case scenarios… and then circles back just to double-check. (Exhausting, right?)

Because of that, I don’t just talk about healing—I’ve lived it.

My personal journey has also been shaped by grief and loss, which led me to dive deeply into understanding how we actually move through pain—not just intellectually, but emotionally and somatically. This is what drew me to EMDR therapy and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)—two powerful, evidence-based approaches that helped me find real relief after sudden and unexpected loss.

Now, I specialize in helping others do the same.

✨ I help clients with:

• OCD & intrusive thoughts (using I-CBT, ACT, and exposure-based approaches) 
• Anxiety & perfectionism 
• Trauma & grief (using EMDR, IFS-informed therapy, and ART) 
• Nervous system regulation & emotional healing 
• Self Esteem, finding your authentic you through Self Love and Acceptance Based Therapy

If you’re someone who feels deeply, thinks a lot, and maybe holds yourself to impossible standards… you’re in the right place.

Outside the therapy room, I’m usually dreaming about my next travel adventure ✈️, reading yet another psychology book I definitely didn’t need to buy, or writing/blogging about healing, self-love, and what it means to be human.

I love connecting with people, hearing their stories, and creating a space where you don’t have to be “less” of who you are to be okay.

Because healing isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about finally feeling safe to be yourself.