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Karen DeArmond Gardner

Author ~ Pastoral trauma coach & advocate

As a Pastoral Trauma Coach, it’s my heart’s calling to walk alongside you through trauma—especially if you’ve experienced domestic abuse. Like a birth doula offering support during life’s vulnerable transitions, I provide emotional, spiritual, and practical care as you move through healing.

My goal is to create a safe, gentle space where you feel truly seen, heard, and supported, whether you’re still in trauma, courageously stepping out, or rebuilding afterward. Using trauma-informed coaching and faith-centered guidance, I’ll help you reclaim your voice, worth, and connection with God.

I’m not here to fix or rescue—but rather to deeply listen, hold space, ask thoughtful questions, and reflect the strength, dignity, and beauty God placed within you. Healing from trauma is sacred, personal, and profound—and I’m honored to be a compassionate presence as you journey toward wholeness.

If you’re interested in coaching, you can find me at Mountain City Christian Counseling under Services.

Survivors ask:

Am I the abuser?
Am I crazy?
Why did he abuse me?
Why do I miss him?.
What if he can change?
Why don’t my family and friends believe me?
Why doesn’t anyone confront him?
Is it my fault?
Did I fail?
Will God hate me if I get a divorce?
When will the pain stop?
Why am I not over it?

As survivors we desperately need to know we are seen, heard, and believed. We desperately need to know that how we feel today won’t last forever.

God loves us more than he hates divorce and God loves us more than He loves the institution of marriage.

God hates abuse (Proverbs 6:16 – 19; Titus 1:15 – 16).

Award Winning Book

Hope for Healing from Domestic Abuse

Karen DeArmond Gardner understands the difficulties and realities of leaving an abusive marriage. Learning the facts of what happened to her didn’t help. Not knowing healing was an option, she assumed she had to live with the pain.

Now she knows the liberating truth: domestic abuse doesn’t have to be a life sentence. She wrote the book she needed when she left.

This isn’t a how-to book with a few easy steps. By sharing her own history, as well as the faithfulness of God as she healed from the one who harmed her.

Karen helps readers:

discover life beyond abuse
recognize God’s relentless pursuit of their heart
gain courage to release the trauma of their past
regain life, hope, and wholeness in Jesus’s healing love

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I have never suffered from domestic abuse. This book educated me, teaching me all the signs to look out for, and many tools for how to love someone who might be stuck, or getting the courage to leave an abusive situation. I think every pastor, teacher, and business leader should read this book.

– Mrs. S

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Karen’s book is a work birthed out of the practical experience of the author written with knowledge, wisdom, compassion, and grace. But it is more than an enlightening experience. It offers solutions rooted in Biblical truths that educate and facilitate healing to the wounded soul.

– Mr. W

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My first impression was that it might not be very well written and a little too Polly Anna, but it repeatedly resonated with my experience, and provided major breakthrough, when I read, “You are not responsible for his darkness.”