About Karen
Karen Buroff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive approach that centers on each person’s needs. Her style is trauma-informed and focused on practical skills people can use right away.
She draws on client-centered methods to build trust and understand what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help reduce stress and calm the nervous system. Karen has worked with people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She has also supported those coping with addictions, grief, relationship strain, work and career changes, and parenting challenges.
Military service issues are part of her background, including work with active duty members and veterans. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple strategies. Karen aims to be strengths-oriented and practical, helping people find steps that fit their life.
Conversations are tailored to what a person needs in the moment and adjusted as goals change. She offers multiple ways to meet, including video, phone, chat, and text-based messaging. Karen accepts international clients and offers services from California.
If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through the initial matching and scheduling process.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Karen blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Trauma-Focused methods into online sessions. Client-centered work means conversations are guided by the person’s goals and lived experience, and the therapist follows the pace the person needs. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Trauma-focused methods prioritize safety and titrated processing for people affected by abuse or intense stress, with attention to grounding and stabilization techniques.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they shape a plan that can include short-term problem solving, skills-building, or longer trauma work depending on needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or movement is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging lets people pause and reflect between messages. These options make it easier to fit care around work, caregiving, travel, or differing energy levels while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, California
- Languages
- English
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