About Karishma
Karishma Samaroo is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing grief, low self-esteem, depression, trauma, and substance use concerns. Her approach aims to make everyday life feel more manageable and to restore confidence.
She draws on nine years of clinical experience to identify patterns that keep problems going. Karishma uses straightforward methods to help people notice thinking and behavior cycles.
Background and approach
That often means trying small changes, then checking what does and doesn’t help. Her work includes supporting people coping with loss, relationship and family-of-origin issues, body image struggles, chronic illness or pain, and the fallout from divorce or domestic violence. She also addresses feelings of emptiness, guilt, and shame and helps people who are navigating hospice or end-of-life concerns.
Karishma relies on tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to map thoughts and actions that drive distress. She also uses motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and psychodynamic ideas to look at how past patterns influence current reactions. Sessions are practical and focused on clear steps a person can try between meetings.
People who choose her tend to want a calm, direct style and concrete strategies for everyday challenges. She offers work that balances immediate coping skills with attention to longer-standing patterns. The aim is steady progress toward clearer thinking and more comfortable living.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns of behavior that maintain anxiety or low mood. It often includes simple experiments and exercises to try between sessions to see what works in daily life.Motivational interviewing focuses on readiness and motivation for change. It helps people clarify values and goals, and it can be useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about making new choices.
Psychodynamic therapy looks at how past relationships and repeated patterns influence current feelings and reactions. When combined with more direct techniques, it can help explain why certain triggers feel so intense and open up new options for responding.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Karishma will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and comfort level, and she adjusts plans as progress is seen. That collaborative process helps match skills and insight to what the person needs now.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which gives flexibility for different days and energies. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and messages or chat can fit short check-ins during a busy week. These options make it easier to keep momentum and try strategies between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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