Karen Jaegerman Collins is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia, with a Master’s Degree in mental health counseling.  Karen’s professional career as a therapist and art therapist includes work with terminally ill children, troubled adolescents, couples in turmoil and young adults with eating and body image disorders.

It was through her early work with terminally ill children that Karen developed an interest in art therapy (she is trained in Mari Mandala Assessment) and in art as a healing process. She considers the creative process a therapeutic expression of the unconscious, and artwork a symbolic representation of personality, emotion and relationships.   

Karen has exhibited in galleries and juried art shows in Virginia (Charlottesville, Staunton, Lynchburg, Roanoke, Hot Springs, and Richmond), Washington, D.C., Maine, New York, and Boston.

Karen is currently retired from her work as a therapist.  She continues to paint in her home studio in Crozet, Virginia and en plain air in the summers in eastern Maine.