About Karen
Karen Graber is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with 11 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress and anxiety, as well as issues like grief, parenting strain, relationship problems, and changes in life circumstances. Karen also supports those dealing with addiction, sleep and eating concerns, self-esteem struggles, and career questions.
Her style is warm and practical. She focuses on a person’s strengths and practical steps they can use right away.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation so skills and goals fit daily life. She aims to help clients build coping tools they can return to long term. Karen draws on client-centered work to listen closely and follow what matters most to each person.
She uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that may come from the past and get in the way now. She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify small, concrete changes that lead to progress. Her background includes a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Northridge, and work in a range of Los Angeles clinics and programs.
That experience includes work with people in addiction programs and school-based services. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged to fit different schedules. Karen accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She works with each person to find an approach that suits their needs and goals.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and build goals that match their values and day-to-day life.Psychodynamic therapy looks at repeating patterns and past experiences that may influence current behavior. This approach can help uncover where old patterns started and how to stop them from shaping present choices.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, concrete changes that create momentum. It is useful when someone wants short-term, goal-oriented work to move past a specific problem.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they will try methods that fit and adjust the plan over time based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face-to-face from different places, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and live chat or text messaging make brief check-ins and mood tracking easier. These formats can make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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